Civil rights LHP

Grandma talking about her experience in the 50’s and 60’s with racism

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Katie O'Connell and Mary Kennedy

Katie O'Connell (22) interviews her grandmother Mary Kennedy (73) about her life and becoming a mother and grandmother.

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Peter Baker and Chris Brookes

Chris Brookes (73) interviews her friend Peter Baker (57) about growing up in Chicago and coming to Lake Ivanhoe, a Black community in southeastern Wisconsin. Peter relates the history of the community from its founding in 1926 up to the...

Talking with my mom Brittani Lewis about her childhood and raising kids.

In this interview, conducted on Saturday November 25,2017 in Chicago Illinois.I Yasmin Jones interviewed my mom Brittani Lewis about her childhood, a little bit of adulthood and raising me. She tells me what she thinks of raising kids. And the...

Alisha's Interview with her Nani, Shobha Johri on 4/25/2020

I talked to my Nani and she told me about her struggles as a child with losing her father, brother and mother. She went with her siblings at the age of 18 to live with her uncle. Shortly after, she...

Grandma Fern
December 4, 2019 App Interview

My mom and I talk about my Grandmother Fern, someone I never got to meet.

Rejecting Culture

In this interview, I, Annelise Schirmer, and my mother, Renée Schirmer, explore her experiences through the Cold War, Vietnam War, and Civil Rights Movements in the north. She describes her involvement with the rock and hippie groups, contributing to counterculture...

Mercedes Luz and Peter Singh

Peter Singh (16) talks with his grandmother, Mercedes Luz (70) about her childhood and growing up in the Philippines. Mercedes discusses her time in Iran during the Iran Iraq war as a nurse in a military hospital. She traveled across...

Grandma

In this interview i have a meaningful conversation with my grandmother about life and more importantly hers. You catch a glimpse in the end of real feelings.

Growing up in Lebanon

This StoryCorps interview was about my grandmothers life growing up in Beirut, Lebanon and her move to Chicago, Illinois.

Nicholas Piediscalzi and Christy Hightower

Nicholas Piediscalzi, a retired United Church of Christ minister, talks to us about his personal experience and relationship to peace, as well as his work in peace-making in larger settings. As a minister in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950’s...