T. Harry
Williams Center for Oral History Collection
INTERVIEWEE
NAME:
Joseph Delpit COLLECTION:
4700.0698
IDENTIFICATION: [1940- ] Local Baton Rouge Area Business Man
INTERVIEWER: Nedra Carter
and Khary Carrell
PROJECT: McKinley
Highschool Oral History Project
DATES: July 1, 1996 FOCUS DATES:
1937-1996
ABSTRACT:
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Delpit's
birth date and family information; how his father started the family business
the “Chicken Shack”; details and memories of other businesses, spatial
locations of businesses, names of businesses, and owners names of
businesses in the south Baton Rouge
area at the same time as the Chicken Shack; Joe Cassio an owner of a hardware
store who help blacks become plumbers; local hangouts that Delpit remembers
frequenting including the McKinley Theater, the Lincoln Theater, and the
Lincoln Bakery; the doctors and dentist that Delpit went to; the class and
pride of the neighborhood during Delpit's youth; celebrities that performed at
the area and stayed in the Boulevard Motel; Delpit's opinion as to why some of
the businesses no longer exist in the community; the impact of integration and
desegregation on Black businesses; Delpit's business philosophy; view of crime
in the community and the need for community members to take an active role in
rebuilding the community; the impact of technology on business; description of
a typical day at work; Delpit's view of the need for black owned businesses;
verbal descriptions of photographs and newspaper clippings included in
transmission under other materials; other individuals that Delpit recommends to
the students for more information.
TAPES:
1025 TOTAL
PLAYING TIME: Approximately 1.5 hours
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PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 45
RESTRICTIONS: If interview
is used for personal profit Joseph Delpit will receive fifty percent of the
obtained profit.