Eva Legard oral history interview, 1996.

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Eva Legard oral history interview, 1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367598874

Legard discusses African-American owned businesses in South Baton Rouge, relationships among people in the community, the lives of students at McKinley High School, and the later deterioration of the neighborhood.

1 sound cassette (33 minutes);Transcript (13 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7384656

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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McKinley High School (Baton Rouge, La.)

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Carter, Nedra,

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Carrell, Khary,

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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...

Legard, Eva, 1924-2005,

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Eva Legard was born in Lafayette, La., on December 31, 1924, and moved to Baton Rouge in 1938. She graduated from McKinley High School and worked at the registrar's office at Southern University. Legard was the first African-American female president of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board and president of the board of the Baton Rouge Council on Human Relations. She received the latter's Powell-Reznikoff Humanitarian Award in 1986. She died in Baton Rouge on May 7, 2005. From the...