No Gains Without Pains Collection

No Gains Without Pains Collection

From the collection of American author, folklorist, and educator Dr. Patricia Rickels, who taught for 50 years at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The collection contains audio recordings, documents, and images related to a collaborative project to document the Civil Rights movement in Louisiana. The resulting product, entitled "No Gains Without Pains": An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana, was a traveling slide show presentation that was advanced in sync with a typed out script and an audio track edited from the original interviews. 

Sponsored by: The Acadiana Committee for the Humanities and The Louisiana Council on Human Relations through a grant from the Louisiana Committee for the Humanities

Featuring interviews with: Murphy Bell, Katherine Bonner, Oliver Bush, Daniel Byrd, Myrtle Cain, J.K. Haynes, J. Carlton James, Annie P. Johnson, Johnny Jones, Vanue D. Lacour, Dr. James R. Oliver, Robert N. Perry, Wilfred Pierre, Msgr. Alexander Sigur, Annie A. Smart, Marion Overton White, and A.Z. Young

Interviews recorded by Dr. Barry Ancelet, Department of Foreign Languages, USL 

Interviewers and Editors: Dr. Lawrence Rice, Department of History, USL; Dr. Patricia Rickels, Department of English, USL; Dr. Matthew Schott, Department of History, USL; Mrs. Doris M. White, Editor of Le Monde

Photographs by Elemore Morgan, Jr., School of Art and Architecture, USL

The resulting video, constructed by Center for Louisiana Studies staff, was compiled from the collection materials, and attempts to replicate the original presentation as faithfully as possible.