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Interviewer
Max Krochmal
Contributor
Rafael Delgadillo
Date of Interview
2025
Publication Date
1-13-2026
Narrator Birth Year
1959
Description
Alfred Marshall was born in New Orleans on March 12, 1959, and grew up in the Calliope housing projects (later B.W. Cooper, now Marrero Commons) in Central City. His mother was a cook and his father was a businessman who ran a fruit truck and a barbershop. As a young man, he was an athlete. His life was profoundly shaped by early and repeated encounters with the criminal justice system, experiences with systemic racism, the impact of the "War on Drugs" on his community, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Through his post-Katrina activism with organizations like STAND and the Worker's Center for Racial Justice, he developed expertise in community organizing, labor rights, and building Black-Brown solidarity.
Disciplines
Oral History
Geographic Coverage
New Orleans, LA
Time Periods
2000s to present
Duration
1:27:08
File Size
2.54 GB
Format
mp4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Marshall, Alfred and Krochmal, Max, "Oral History Interview with Alfred Marshall (Part 1)" (2026). Economic Justice Research Lab Oral History Project. 32.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/ejrloh/32
Comments
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