Horace Wilkinson IV oral history interview, 2000.

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Horace Wilkinson IV oral history interview, 2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/693584954

Horace Wilkinson IV discusses Wilkinson family history; life on his family's sugar plantations; the lives of African-American plantation workers; downtown Baton Rouge in the late 1950s; working summers at Camp Namequoit on Cape Cod; LSU student life in the early 1960s, especially fraternity and sorority life; his impressions of and relationships with university figures including T. Harry Williams, Troy Middleton, and Kerry Pourciau; his father's political career; and Louisiana politics in the 1950s and 1960s, including the political fortunes of some of his ancestors.

2 sound cassettes (1 hour, 52 minutes);Abstract (3 leaves);Transcript (75 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7994468

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Horace Wilkinson IV comes from a long line of Louisiana plantation owners. He attended Port Allen Elementary School, graduated from University High School in Baton Rouge, and attended the University of the South for a year before transferring to Louisiana State University. His father, Horace Wilkinson III, died suddenly in 1961 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Scales Wilkinson, later remarried. Wilkinson was student body president of LSU from April to November 1962, and president of Alpha Tau Omega...