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Interviewer
Max Krochmal
Contributor
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
10-16-2025
Narrator Birth Year
1949
Description
Barbara Major is a veteran community organizer from New Orleans, born in 1949. Raised in both the Ninth Ward and rural Washington Parish, she was the first urban-born generation in her agrarian family. She attended George Washington Carver High School and Southern University of New Orleans (SUNO), where she majored in sociology and became involved in campus activism during the Civil Rights and Black Power era. Her career spanned numerous social justice movements, including welfare rights, anti-hunger campaigns, juvenile justice reform, and tenant organizing. She was a key organizer in the St. Thomas housing development and became a nationally recognized anti-racism trainer with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
1980s to present
Duration
1:21:28
File Size
2.01 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Major, Barbara and Krochmal, Max, "Oral History Interview with Barbara Major" (2025). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 27.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/27
Comments
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