Adrienne Lacour oral history series, 1993.

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Adrienne Lacour oral history series, 1993.

Interviews conducted by Adrienne Lacour for a graduate class in landscape architecture on land use patterns and community history in the predominately African-American community of Four Corners, located south of New Iberia, Louisiana, in Saint Mary Parish. Topics covered include growing and processing sugar cane; South Coast Plantation and other area plantations; plantation stores and debt peonage; recreation, including gambling and baseball; the impact of World War II; and religion.

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LaCour-Patrick, Adrienne, 1954-

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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...