Oliver Mack

Oliver Mack, Jr. was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1946 and soon thereafter his parents moved Baton Rouge. He attended McKinley High School and was a member of the NAACP class-action suit that led to the admission of African American undergraduates at Louisiana State University. He then went on to attend LSU as an undergraduate where he was a member of the Air Force ROTC and received several scholarships.

Mack’s interview is housed in the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU Libraries Special Collections. Mack, Oliver, interview by Mary Hebert, audio recording, 1993, 4700.0316. Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.