Items and Collections

Contributor to Resource
University of Washington. Information School

Publisher
Black Oral History Interviews, 1972-1974, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Date of Original
1972/1974

Subject
African Americans--Northwest, Pacific
African Americans--Civil rights--Northwest, Pacific
Oral history--Northwest, Pacific

Location
United States, Idaho, 44.5002, -114.25118
United States, Montana, 47.00025, -109.75102
United States, Oregon, 44.00013, -120.50139
United States, Washington, 47.50012, -120.50147

Medium
oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings

Type
Sound

Description
The Black Oral History Collection consists of interviews conducted by Quintard Taylor and his associates, Charles Ramsay and John Dawkins. They interviewed African American pioneers and their descendants throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, from 1972-1974. The project began in the summer of 1972, when the Black Studies Department was provided with $1500 in university funds to begin preliminary research on sources of black history in the Pacific Northwest. Since it seemed that few blacks left a written record of themselves, important information was passed on from one generation to the next by word of mouth. Topics discussed in the interviews include early black settlers, job opportunities, social life and community, living patterns, black churches, and black political involvement from the late 1800s through 1974. Most of the interviews follow a standard set of questions., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Metadata URL
https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/5985/search

Contributing Institution
Washington State University. Library. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Rights