Paul C. Young oral history interview, 1980.

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Paul C. Young oral history interview, 1980.

Young discusses his educational background and reminisces about the LSU psychology department in the 1920s and 1930s. He discuses Huey Long and Long's impact on LSU. Young also tells anecdotes about other LSU faculty members and notes the reasons faculty members stayed at LSU during the Depression.

1 sound cassette (30 minutes);Transcript (28 p.)

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