Adolph Jerome Byrd oral history interview, 1995.

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Adolph Jerome Byrd oral history interview, 1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/361782528

Byrd discusses his attendance at McKinley High School, including academics, sports, activities, influential teachers, older students, and graduates; his struggle to complete high school because of the need to drop out for work; the role of the community in raising children; disciplinary action he and other children received when they misbehaved; the lack of discipline and respect among young people today; and the need to rehabilitate nonviolent criminals.

1 sound cassette (47 minutes);Transcript (26 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

McKinley High School (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Jones, Roderick, Sir, 1877-1962

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Robinson, Eddie (Bassist)

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Byrd, Adolph Jerome, 1922-

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Adolph Jerome Byrd was born January 22, 1922, in Shreveport, La. He attended McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, La., from 1935 to 1942, often dropping out to work and support himself financially. Byrd attended Louisiana Negro Normal and Industrial School (now Grambling State University) beginning in 1942, but left to serve in World War II. He returned there after the war and earned a degree in elementary education in 1949. Byrd later completed master and doctoral degrees and taught in Louisian...