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Description:: Interviews with the students and teachers of the segregated African-American high school in rural Fairfield County, South Carolina, which help to shed light not just on the experience of race and exclusion, but also on the texture of daily life in one of these caring communities.
Date of Original:: 2017-10-26
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: Covering the period since the onset of the civil rights era, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown oral history interviews with African American, Mexican American, and white activists located throughout the large, diverse state adds new depth to the study of “black/brown” and multicultural relations past and present.
Date of Original:: 2015-06-03/2017-02-21
Contributing Institution:: University of North Texas. Libraries

Description:: Read transcripts of and listen to oral history interviews conducted by the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History of the Chicago History Museum.
Date of Original:: 2008/2019
Contributing Institution:: Chicago History Museum

Description:: Collection holds newspaper articles, publications, interviews, and notes collected and created by author Devery Anderson during research for publications on Emmett Till, including his 2015 monograph Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement.
Date of Original:: 2007-02-07
Contributing Institution:: Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections

Description:: Sixteen digital videocassette tapes documenting the 13 April 2000 conference, "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Ella J. Baker ("Miss Baker") and the Birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee," held at Shaw University, in Raleigh, NC.
Date of Original:: 2000
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

Description:: Oral history collection consisting of 41 interviews conducted for the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies from 1986-2006.
Date of Original:: 1986/2006
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

Description:: Funded by an NEH grant, this project focuses on black working class social history of Birmingham, Alabama prior to World War II.
Date of Original:: 1983/1985
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

Description:: This collection consists of oral history audio recordings from 1995-2017 about the life and accomplishments of U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
Date of Original:: 1981/2017
Contributing Institution:: William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
Sensitive Content:: Material contained in The University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections may negatively depict race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnicities, and class. The University of Alabama Libraries does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. We present our collections as they were originally created to promote scholarly research and analysis.

Description:: Audio recordings of Southwind, a half-hour radio program of features and documentaries on the people, issues, and events of the South, dating from 1980 to 1987.
Date of Original:: 1980/1987
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta History Center

Description:: The William Gravely Oral History Collection on the Lynching of Willie Earle consists of 41 oral history interviews and accompanying supplementary materials.
Date of Original:: 1980/1999
Contributing Institution:: South Caroliniana Library

Description:: The University of Washington Special Collections began collecting oral histories in the 1960s as part of an effort to document the history and culture of our regional ethnic communities. Forging partnerships with local organizations, oral historians recorded interviews with members of the Scandinavian American, African American, Japanese American, and Jewish communities in Seattle and Washington State.
Date of Original:: 1968/2015
Contributing Institution:: University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division

Description:: Forty-nine recording of Duke University students vigil after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and of the Afro-American Society student-lead occupation of the Allen Building in 1969.
Date of Original:: 1968/1969
Contributing Institution:: Duke University. Library

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