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Oral history interview with Jacquelyn Clarkson, June 9, 2006 interview U-0228, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview U-0228, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Jacquelyn Clarkson, June 9, 2006 (portion title)

Clarkson, Jacquelyn. (Interviewee). Hamilton, Pamela (Interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson, a former real estate agent, councilwoman of New Orleans and Louisiana legislator, opens the interview by explaining why she ran for city council. After her time in the legislature, she returned to the council. Her father had been on the council in the 1940s and started the recreation department. She remained in the city during Katrina, working with the mayor from his headquarters in the Hyatt Hotel. Though the city had many rescue workers, they did not have the other help they needed. She praises the work done by the National Guard, police, firefighters and other first responders who had remained within the city. She kept an eye on her district, contacting constituents she knew and then relaying information from them back to the first responders though the rescuers would not allow her to go out in the helicopters. Her family went to Baton Rouge to wait out the storm. In the recent election, she had decided to relinquish her seat and run at large, but lost the race. She has returned to her volunteer work. She is concerned by issues of development and historic preservation post-Katrina.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic edition
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2008.

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General Note:	Duration: 00:48:19. Interview participants: Jacquelyn Clarkson, interviewee; Pamela Hamilton, interviewer. Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Title from menu page (viewed on June 23, 2009).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: MP3 file, 88.5 megabytes.
Original Version Note:	Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series U, The long civil rights movement: the South since the 1960s, interview U-0228, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Emily Baran. Original transcript: 22 p.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.