UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project, 2019-2020
The UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project interviews document the experiences of Black students who attended the University of Georgia in the years following the University's 1961 desegregation. Some of the topics alumni discuss include their reasons for enrolling at UGA, their social lives, their academic goals, their experiences with racism on and off campus, and how time their time at UGA has shaped their lives.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
2019/2020
Subject
University of Georgia
University of Georgia
African American college students
College integration--Georgia
College integration--Students
Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae--Georgia
Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
Medium
interviews
oral histories (literary works)
Type
Sound
Description
The UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project interviews document the experiences of Black students who attended the University of Georgia in the years following the University's 1961 desegregation. Some of the topics alumni discuss include their reasons for enrolling at UGA, their social lives, their academic goals, their experiences with racism on and off campus, and how time their time at UGA has shaped their lives.
This project was funded by the Giving Voice to the Voiceless grant established by Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Ron Gault and administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia.
Related collection in this repository: Related materials include select interviews in the Goin' Back: Remembering UGA Oral History Collection: Interview with Mary Frances Early, May 22, 2007; Interview with Robert Benham, December 2, 2016; and Interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Mary Diallo, Kerry Rushin Miller, and Harold Black, January 12, 2017.
The previous UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project is an initiative of the University Archives unit of the Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia that began in 2019. The goal of the project is to document the stories of Black students who attended UGA in the 1960s and 70s through interviews and preserve these stories for future generations.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Hargrett Library
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