Dolores D. Parker oral history interview, 2003.

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Dolores D. Parker oral history interview, 2003.

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Parker describes her childhood in various cities in Louisiana, attending her segregated African-American high school in New Orleans in the 1950s, her positions at various schools in New Orleans in the 1960s through 1991, raising four children on her own after she divorced her husband, the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood before and after Hurricane Betsy, her family's experiences during the hurricane, and their rebuilding process.

1 sound cassette (1 hour, 34 minutes);Abstract (3 leaves);Transcript (91 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Parker, Raymond L. (Raymond Laurence)

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Mwendo, Nilima,

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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...

Parker, Dolores

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Dolores D. Parker was born in Bayou Goula, La. The daughter of a minister, she grew up moving around the state. She graduated from Clark High School in New Orleans then earned a B.A. degree in elementary education from Dillard. She taught in New Orleans public schools for 32 years and taught reading in an adult education program. She is the mother of four children: Raymond, Raynelle, Raynette, and Raynard. Raymond, who also contributes to this interview, is her oldest child. From the...