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Mark Rainey(17) interviews Levon Turner(91) (his great grandmother) about her life and her walk through time.

Grace Mehrer (18) interviews with her grandmother, Judy Houston (74) at her house in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. They discuss her childhood, specifically growing up as one of 8 children in a family with little. As well, they talk about marrying...

Creating Community Through Sharing Stories: Ajita Bhat reflects on her immigration to America in the pursuit of higher education, and how her impressions of the country has evolved. After settling in Andover, she quickly found community, and eventually became the...

Andrew Merrill: 2023-05-21 22:49:19. Andrew Merrill (17) talks with Lynne Bradford (69), his grandmother, about her childhood and experiences during the changes of the 60s.

Deja Bao, Hudson High School Senior, interviews Ms. Shari Hunter, social entrepreneur and Co-Owner of the Two Cafe and Boutique, with her son Derek Hunter, and founder of "The Two Foundation" about their work to bridge the gap that exists...

James Davis, age 16, interviews his neighbor, author Ralph Stokes, born in 1953, about his experiences as a football player and being one of the first African Americans to be integrated during the Civil Rights Movement.

Wayne Lee discusses playing high school football during integration in Oklahoma, then his college experience and later Vietnam

Andrew Sonner (age 88) interviewed by his daughter and granddaughter.

Lauren Graham (17) talks with her grandmother Lavonda Graham (77) about racism and segregation in Milwaukee. In her eyes, integration wasn't so great for us and still isn't today. Join us as we uncover the truth in Milwaukee and its...

In this interview, my grandmother discusses her experience with segregation and integration.

In this interview, we talked about the bussing program in California during the 1970s.

Talking about grandma Thelma and her job

Julie Peck 72 and Bill Lynch 75 discussed the development of Bill's social justice philosophy from a Quaker high school, through law school at U of Chicago, becoming a conscientious objector after ROTC, teaching in a changing school system.

Ed Hall and his sister Toni Baker talk about their earliest years in Mobile, Alabama. Toni talks about her education at diocesan schools--St. Peter Claver and Heart of Mary--and at Michigan State University in Lansing.

In the midst of the pandemic my family has been blessed with new life. I spoke with my Aunt Jewel about the experience of becoming a great-grandma during the outbreak. I thought I knew my aunt pretty well but this...

The interview of my aunts about 1980

Jim Henry was a junior at Morehouse College in February 1960 when he participated in a sit-in with other black students in Atlanta.

On May 20th, 2019 Emma Law interviews her mother, Dawn law, in Superior Colorado asking about her life experiences from the late 1900s into the 2000s. Dawn describes growing up in a mostly white neighborhood in Canandaigua, New York. She...

Conversation with grandmother about the integration of elementary school

My dad, Frank Fregoso, told me about the multiple elementary and middle schools he attended in Corpus Christi. We talked about their differences in location, facility, demographics, and what it was like to be a “neighborhood kid” in the 70s...

Family History

During this interview, we discuss my grandmother’s life experiences, focusing on segregation and the Civil Rights Movement.

Race Relations

This interview was recorded in Oxford Mississippi on November 26. I interviewed Edmond Boudreaux who is my grandfather and was born in Georgiatown, South Carolina and now lives in Biloxi Mississippi. He talks about public bus integration and his first...

Acclaimed international musician, William Foster McDaniel shares how his formative experiences with the YMCA of Central Ohio and seven years as a camper at YMCA Camp Willson changed his life.