Pontchartrain Park Pioneers: An oral history of New Orleans’ civil rights era segregated black ‘suburb in the city’

• Authors: Clyde C. Roberston , Jennifer Edwards

Abstracts

EN

The article was inspired by the Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Project which began in 2019. Ten Pontchartrain Park pioneers who purchased their homes in this middle class, African American community between 1955 and 1965 were interviewed. This innovative oral history project allowed the interviewees to share their unique stories of pursuing the ‘American Dream’ of home ownership, while living in a racially segregated country and city.

Keywords

PL

segregation; integration; discrimination; Pontchartrain Park; Pontchartrain Park Pioneers; redlining; Civil Rights Movement; Southern University at New Orleans; American dream; autor relacji oral history; Timecode Indexing Module; Virtual Teaching Module

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 136-147

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Clyde C. Roberston

• Southern University at New Orleans

• https://orcid.org/0000000303344872

author

Jennifer Edwards

• Paralegal and Attorney – Hebbler and Giordano

• https://orcid.org/0009000905413457

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.376

Biblioteka Nauki

31803973