05262cgdaa22007697i 4500 21749959 20250607103416.2 cr c|a|||||||| 201013s2018 lau--- o v|eng 21749959 0 ibc orignew u ncip 20 y-folklife mler 2020-07-30 masmit 2020-10-13 LCAP batch update 2025-06-02-04:00: LCAPM-893 2020655500 DLC eng dacs DLC n-us-la AFC 2018/029: 05420 Chase, Leah, interviewee. Leah Chase interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-18. 2018-12-18 2 video files (mpg4, mov) (45:50) : digital, sound, color. 1 sound file (wav) (45:50) : digital, sound. 7 photographs : digital, jpg, color. 1 manuscript : pdf, text file. spoken word spw rdacontent two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent still image sti rdacontent audio s rdamedia video v rdamedia computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact Recorded at Dooky Chase's restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 18, 2018. Leah Chase is chef and owner of Dooky Chase's restaurant in New Orleans, LA. Dooky Chase's has been called one of the first fine dining restaurant for black people in the United States. Chase was 96 years old at the time of this interview and she passed just months after, so it is a gift to record her lucid, passionate, insightful, and powerful stories about race, work, women, love, and the importance of uplifting people and valuing human beings. Chase talks about growing up in the Depression and learning the value of appreciating things and how we are losing this in modern society. She talks about how she started in restaurant industry, working in the French Quarter in 1941. Chase recalls the struggle and strategy sessions that took place in her restaurant that helped facilitate integration in the 1960s. Among other notables, she served the Freedom Riders, Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. Chase talks about reading a poem by Tupac Shakur and the impact it made on her. Chase tells other stories about all the celebrities that have come to Dooky's including Michael Jackson--(he loved her sweet potato pies)--and Barack Obama. She slapped Obama's hand and scolded him when he tried to put hot sauce on her Gumbo. The Green Book--documenting African American entrepreneurs : Archie Green Fellows project, 2018-2019 (AFC 2018/029: 05420) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers. In English. Chase, Leah Interviews. African American civil rights workers Louisiana Interviews. Poverty. Restaurants. Racism. Small business. African American businesspeople Interviews. African Americans United States Travel Guidebooks. African American business enterprises History. New Orleans (La.), event place. Sound recordings. lcgft Video recordings. lcgft Digital photographs Color 2010-2020. gmgpc Interviews. lcgft Oral histories. lcgft Personal narratives. lcgft Guidebooks. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026108 Taylor, Candacy A., interviewer. Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor. The Green Book--documenting African American entrepreneurs : Archie Green Fellows project, 2018-2019 AFC 2018/029: 05420 (DLC) 2020655387 Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home afc2018029_05420_mv02 afc2018029 Video of Leah Chase interview. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2018029.afc2018029_05420_mv02 afc2018029_05420_mv01 afc2018029 B-roll video of Dooky Chase's Restaurant (interior and exterior). afc2018029_05420_sr01 afc2018029 Audio recording of interview with Leah Chase. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2018029.afc2018029_05420_sr01 afc2018029_05420_ph afc2018029 Images associated with interview. afc2018029_05420_ms01 afc2018029 Transcript of interview with Leah Chase. afc/agf afc/ofp afc/2018029