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Oral History Interview with Beth Butler
No full textBeth Butler began working with Acorn in the 1970s, first in Little Rock and then taking leadership roles in Acorn offices across the South, including in Dallas, Fort Worth, Memphis, and ultimately New Orleans starting in 1980. She has been a central figure in Acorn and Community Voice\u27s work in New Orleans for over 40 years.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1005/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Felix Allen
No full textFelix Allen is a 29-year-old musician who worked at a Lowe\u27s store in New Orleans from late 2020 to mid-2022. He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to a white father and Chinese mother, and studied music in college before moving to New Orleans to pursue a career as a drummer. He became involved in labor organizing after witnessing poor working conditions and treatment of employees at the Lowe\u27s store.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1008/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Jose Torres Tama
No full textJose Torres Tama is an Ecuadorian-American artist born in 1961 who had lived in New Orleans for approximately 40 years at the time of the interview. He was a multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompassed visual arts (painting, drawing), performance art, and writing (poetry, journalism). He studied art and creative writing in New York and New Jersey before moving to New Orleans. His work was deeply political and focused on social justice, drawing heavily from his identity as a Latino immigrant and his extensive documentation of the post-Katrina immigrant labor community in New Orleans.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1020/thumbnail.jp
Lost in the Flock: Alex Landry—The Master Naturalist’s Journey through Nature, Healing, and Birding
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Oral History Interview with Diana Dunn
No full textDiana Dunn is a leading anti-racism organizer. Her activism started in the 1960s with the anti-war movement. Alongside her late husband, Dr. Jim Dunn, and his colleague Ron Chisholm, she co-founded The People\u27s Institute for Survival and Beyond. She dedicated decades to facilitating and developing the Undoing Racism workshops across the United States, focusing on empowering communities to understand and dismantle systemic racism.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1022/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Kimberley Richards
No full textDr. Kimberly Richards is an educator, community organizer, and core trainer with The People\u27s Institute for Survival and Beyond. She held a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, where her research pioneered methods of community-led research and evaluation with residents of the St. Thomas housing development in New Orleans. Raised by activist parents, her entire life was enmeshed in struggles for social and economic justice. Her professional experience included working as a teacher, a reading specialist, and the executive director of an education fund in cities like Atlanta and Washington D.C., before she became a central figure in New Orleans\u27 anti-racism and community organizing landscape, particularly after Hurricane Katrina.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1025/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Harold John (Part 1)
No full textHarold John is a former union steward who worked for the U.S. Postal Service. They have been heavily involved in labor activism, political advocacy, and community organizing over the course of their career.https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/1010/thumbnail.jp