Betty Nelson oral history interview, 1996.

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Betty Nelson oral history interview, 1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71223403

Nelson discusses her family; her grandfather, Sam Caldwell, the overseer at the Cohn family's Carolina Plantation who, with Henry Cohn, established Cohn High School in Port Allen; growing up in Port Allen; attending African-American schools there and in Baton Rouge; her university education in Louisiana and California; and her political involvement in West Baton Rouge Parish.

1 sound cassette (1.5 hours);Transcript (20 leaves)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8079455

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Caldwell, Samuel T.

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Port Allen Colored Elementary School (Port Allen, La.)

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Morgan, Brendan

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Nelson, Betty Jackson,

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Betty Nelson was a native of Port Allen, La., and attended Port Allen Colored Elementary School and McKinley High School in Baton Rouge. As a teenager in the early 1950s, Nelson became active in African-American voter registration in West Baton Rouge Parish. She attended Leland College, Southern University, Los Angeles City College, and the University of Southern California. Upon returning to Louisiana, Nelson became active in Port Allen politics where she became one of the first African-America...

Cohn High School (Port Allen, La.)

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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...

Cohn, Henry.

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McKinley High School (Baton Rouge, La.)

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