T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE: Noland Lockett

COLLECTION:4700.0284

IDENTIFICATION: [1938- ] Born and raised in Four Corners; great-grandson of migrant cane worker from Caribbean; former associate dean of junior college

INTERVIEWER: Adrienne LaCour, graduate student in landscape architecture, LSU

PROJECT: Four Corners Community Center landscape design project

DATE: 10 February 1993

FOCUS DATES: 1940-1960

ABSTRACT:

Tape 393

Logging history of Four Corners area; origin of Lockett clan; extent of South Coast Plantation; Korean war as opportunity for blacks to escape plantation; debt peonage through plantation store; exodus off Four Corners area farms; sale of South Coast Plantation; fathers's experience of being kicked off plantation because of his initiative; race relations; seminary experience; Indian ancestry of mother; LeBove (?) general store; personal chronology since leaving Four Corners; plans for private school at Four Corners; Success of Lockett family; Mardi Gras during his childhood; gambling and his father; three-card Kotch; recreation during childhood; work ethic of his youth; self-provisioning of families; nostalgia for the past; origins of his optimism; assessment of the successful; hopes for his new school

TAPE: 393

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 90 min.

INDEX: 7 pages

RESTRICTIONS: None