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.
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.
The Detroit Historical Society’s oral and written history online archive is a unique and invaluable resource, universally accessible to students, researchers and everyone with an interest in Detroit’s past and future. A wide range of perspectives is represented, including those of individuals who were present and in positions of authority in 1967, people who lived in the city at the time and have remained, and people who have moved away. In addition, we have interviewed people who were not yet born in 1967 but have been eager to reflect on how the events affected their lives, their families and their future. Numerous community leaders have been interviewed, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, Edward Deeb, Dr. Karl Gregory, Mike Hamlin, Donald Lobsinger, Marsha Battle Philpot, Reverend Lonnie Peek, Bob Roselle, Harriett Saperstein, and Adam Shakoor.
The Detroit Historical Society’s oral and written history online archive is a unique and invaluable resource, universally accessible to students, researchers and everyone with an interest in Detroit’s past and future. A wide range of perspectives is represented, including those of individuals who were present and in positions of authority in 1967, people who lived in the city at the time and have remained, and people who have moved away. In addition, we have interviewed people who were not yet born in 1967 but have been eager to reflect on how the events affected their lives, their families and their future. Numerous community leaders have been interviewed, including Reverend Wendell Anthony, Edward Deeb, Dr. Karl Gregory, Mike Hamlin, Donald Lobsinger, Marsha Battle Philpot, Reverend Lonnie Peek, Bob Roselle, Harriett Saperstein, and Adam Shakoor.
Florida State University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives started collecting tweets posted on Twitter using the hashtag, #EmmettTill, in March 2017. Tweets are collected using the tool, IFTTT, and deposited in a Google Drive directory before processed for the digital library. In keeping with privacy polices of both Twitter and FSU Libraries, only the tweet content, along with any associated URLs, and their published dates are made public as part of FSU's automated collection of Twitter and the #EmmettTill hashtag. FSU only collected tweets that users decided to share publicly.
Audiovisual recordings and still images created by Clifton during visits to sites in Mississippi significant to the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till.
The Atlanta Student Movement Project is a research project uncovering and preserving the history of Atlanta sit-ins and student protests that were pivotal in the success of the Student Movement, the Civil Rights movement, and the history of the city of Atlanta as a whole.
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.
Interviews of family members, friends and colleagues of former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson which were conducted in support of the documentary film "Maynard" released in 2017.
Interviews from 2014-2020 documenting the development of Athens as a breeding ground for multiple musical communities including the Southern independent rock scene.
Oral histories documenting the history of Athens, Georgia from the mid-twentieth century to the 2010s including neighborhoods and communities in Athens, civil rights demonstrations, African American history, as well as personal histories of narrators.
Online edition of the transcriptions and corresponding audio files of the presidential recordings of United States president Lyndon B. Johnson, who served in office from 1963-1969.
From his early exposure to racial segregation as a child and solider in World War 2, to his long career in politics during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the story of William Winter is one of courage and leadership set during some of the most tumultuous times in American history.
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.
Twentieth century photographs and other materials documenting the African American contributions in Habersham, Banks, Rabun, and White counties. A virtual version of the exhibit is available.
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.
Oral history interviews with University of Georgia alumni describing their student days from the 1930s to the 1970s as well as reflecting on life in contemporary Georgia.
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.
Photographs, audio, and moving image files dating from 2004 to 2012 that document the Spelman Independent Scholars program, a two-semester independent, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational learning experience open to students across all majors.
The collection hold film containing footage of people and places significant to the murder of Emmett Till, recorded by Keith A. Beauchamp for use in the documentary motion picture The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College Collections Online features online descriptions to key collections belonging to Trenholm State's Division of Institutional Archives and Special Collections of Montgomery's Pioneer Voting Rights Activists; selected collections described at this site cover significant events in Alabama's voting rights movement, as well as materials about prominent Montgomery, Alabama-area African American civil rights workers, elected officials, and educators.
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.
Series of interviews conducted in 1999-2000 as part of a Carver-VCU Partnership project documenting the history of the African American Carver neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia.
The Alabama History Education Materials Collection features instructional activities and lesson plans that were created from the collections of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The materials in this collection cover topics in Alabama History from the First Alabamians to the modern Civil Rights Movement and more. These materials are downloadable, printable, and free to use.
In 1995, Dr. Horace Huntley started the Oral History Project at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to collect the stories of individuals involved in the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama.
