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UGA Black Alumni Oral History Project, 2019-2020

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.
Date of Original:
2019/2020
Contributing Institution:
Hargrett Library

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Fairfield high school oral history collection

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

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Collection
Civil rights in black and brown

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

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Collection
Cleaborn Homes resident interviews

Description:
The Cleaborn Homes Collection includes interviews with former residents of the Cleaborn Homes housing project in Memphis, Tennessee. Cleaborn Homes were part of Memphis public housing, specifically Foote Homes, which were segregated in the 1960s, and retained a largely African-American population continuing through the 1990s.
Date of Original:
2011
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

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Collection
Devery Anderson papers

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

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Tom Crosby’s Rosenwald School oral history collection, 2006-2011

Description:
The Rosenwald Schools of South Carolina exhibit features as its center the forty-three oral history interviews forming the Tom Crosby Oral History Collection that describe the educational experiences of African Americans in South Carolina 1910s-1970s, most of whom attended Rosenwald schools and/or Allen University.
Date of Original:
2006/2011
Contributing Institution:
South Caroliniana Library

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Collection
Working Lives Oral History Project

Description:
Oral histories about Birmingham, Alabama's African American working class prior to World War II.
Date of Original:
1983/1984
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.

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Collection
Working lives oral history project

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.

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Collection
Tom Bevill oral histories

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.

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Collection
Southwind recordings

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

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Collection
Oral histories of the American South : The civil rights movement

Description:
Civil rights related oral histories from the collections of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina.
Date of Original:
1972/2014
Contributing Institution:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Collection
The University of Alabama at Birmingham oral history collection

Description:
Interviews (available as audio files), many of which were conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, that document the lives of political and civic leaders, civil rights in Alabama, ethnic history of Alabama, folk history of Alabama, labor history of Alabama, history of Alabama women, historic Alabama communities, Alabama refugee experiences, and history of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Date of Original:
1970/1990
Contributing Institution:
Mervyn H. Sterne Library

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Collection
Many paths, many voices: oral histories from the University of Washington special collections

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

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Collection
Laurraine Goreau interviews and recordings

Description:
This digital collection consists of select interviews digitized from the Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059, of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, a division of Tulane University Special Collections. The audio interviews were digitized with a 2019 Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR).
Date of Original:
1967/2020
Contributing Institution:
Amistad Research Center

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Collection
John Burrison Georgia Folklore Archives collection

Description:
Professor John Burrison founded the Atlanta Folklore Archive recordings in 1967 at Georgia State University. He trained undergraduates and graduate students enrolled in his folklore curriculum to conduct oral history interviews. Students interviewed men, women, and children of various demographics in Georgia and across the southeast on crafts, storytelling, music, and traditions.
Date of Original:
1966/1970
Contributing Institution:
Atlanta History Center

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Collection
Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project

Description:
Interviews were conducted by Kentucky native, author, and first poet laureate of the United States, Robert Penn Warren in 1964 as research for his book Who Speaks for the Negro?
Date of Original:
1964
Contributing Institution:
Kentucky Digital Library
University of Kentucky. Libraries
Sensitive Content:
You may come across language in UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center collections and online resources that you find harmful or offensive. SCRC collects materials from different cultures and time periods to preserve and make available the historical record. These materials document the time period when they were created and the view of their creator. As a result, some may demonstrate racist and offensive views that do not reflect the values of UK Libraries. If you find description with problematic language that you think SCRC should review, please contact us at SCRC@uky.edu.

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Collection
Larry Rubin papers 1961-2010

Description:
Audio and video of meetings and activities of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Georgia recorded by Larry Rubin in the early 1960s; audio letters from Larry Rubin to his parents from Georgia in the early 1960s; Rubin's radio program, "Revolution in Georgia," created at Antioch College in the early 1960s; two video documentaries of the movement in Georgia featuring Rubin; two programs commemorating SNCC, dating from 2003 and 2010; papers relating to the arrest of Rubin and other SNCC/COFO members in Mississippi in 1964 for hauling books to Freedom Schools.
Date of Original:
1961/2010
Contributing Institution:
Duke University. Library

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Collection
Sanitation strike tapes

Description:
Collection of interviews and news broadcasts covering Martin Luther King's assassination, the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike, and other civil rights related news and events. Audio collected by the Memphis Search for Meaning Committee from 1968-1973.
Date of Original:
1960/1973
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

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Collection
W. W. Law Moving Image and Sound collection

Description:
Content collected from 1954 to 2004 by W. W. Law, a prominent Civil Rights leader, local historian, historic preservationist and community leader in Savannah, Georgia including recordings of local news television and radio programs, concerts of local artists, interviews, oral histories, and more.
Date of Original:
1955/2004
Contributing Institution:
City of Savannah Municipal Archives

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Collection
Carroll Gartin collection

Description:
A Democrat, Carroll Gartin served three terms as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor (1952-1956, 1956-1960, and 1964-1966). He lost a 1953 campaign against incumbent James O. Eastland for the U.S. Senate and a 1959 race against Ross Barnett to become governor of the state. In 1966, Gartin announced his intention to run for governor again but died of a heart attack in December of that year.
Date of Original:
1946/1964
Contributing Institution:
John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

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Collection
Lester Maddox papers

Description:
Materials belonging to Georgia governor and businessman Lester Maddox dating from 1915/2003
Date of Original:
1915/2003
Contributing Institution:
Atlanta History Center

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Collection
Everett R. Cook oral history collection

Description:
The Everett R. Cook Collection includes interviews conducted from 1979-2004 as part of the Everett R. Cook Oral History Collection on Civil Rights, made available through a partnership with the Memphis Public Library.
Date of Original:
1905/2004
Contributing Institution:
Rhodes College

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Collection
African American history

Description:
This collection traces the history and culture of African Americans particularly in the Eastern North Carolina region.
Date of Original:
1728/2018
Contributing Institution:
J.Y. Joyner Library