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My grandfather explains his experiences in the army and how it affected his life.

Talking with my longtime family friend Sue Rogers (Ms. Sue) about life and growing up black in Jim Crowe Mississippi.

My grandma, Diane Captain, looks back at her early life and the Civil Rights Movement. She compares her generation's macho to the current one's social media craze.

This is Jonathan Berryhill (47) speaking with John Sawyer Berryhill (16) on Nov. 25th, 2018. He talks about his childhood and his beliefs along with his reactions to recent major historical events and politics. He talks about growing up in...

Spoke with my grandmother Susan DiFatta about growing up in the Deep South and other childhood memories

Race, Family, Community and growing up in the segregated south.

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...

Library Associate, Kayla Morris [no age given], has a conversation with interview participant, Colonel Jacqueline Caynon-Hall [no age given], about her experience as a nursing student from the 1962 class at Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. The conversation was...

In this interview, conducted in Flint, Michigan during November 2018, Zakaria Brame interviews her God-Grandfather, Jim Jackson, about his teenage years in Greenwood, Mississippi. He shares memories of playing music and being in a band throughout high school and college...

Summaya Kaba: 2024-04-11 23:41:52

In the interview on Sunday the 25 November 2018 we talked about a lot of things. One of the things that we talked about was her childhood. We also talked about the Emmett till case and also we talked about...

My Nana Paris Brown [69] and I talked about segregation and discrimination. She had experienced, which was very little. We also talked about what she did in her free time and other experiences she has seen encountered or heard about...

Childhood and Advice.

I interviewed my grandma and asked her about her experience in the 50’s and 60’s.

This interview reflects on the past of Leola Halls childhood in Arkansas. She explains how the past were during discriminated schools and the WW2. Leola also states how she picked cotton as a child an most importantly states how it...

This conversation between Sonya(20) and her dad, Sylvain(61), explores broadcast news from the perspective of someone who works behind the camera. Sylvain has worked for CBC for almost four decades and details how he found himself doing this work, the...

On November 21, 2018 in Dallas, Texas, Yasmin Misra (16) and Dave Schoen (74), family friends, discuss Mr. Schoen's childhood and Norwegian upbringing in rural Wisconsin. Mr. Schoen also talks about teaching as a university professor in Indiana and how...

Cousins Arthur Park (82) and Abe Cho (81) sit down to remember Herbert Cho, Abe' younger brother and Arthur's cousin, who died during the Vietnam War.

An interview with my father on life, change, and new understandings since his Alzheimer's diagnosis two years ago.

I interviewed my grandmother about her life as a teenager in Macon, Georgia during the 50s.

In this interview, conducted on November 26, 2018 in Oxford, Mississippi, Addison Hunt (13) interviews her great grandmother Pebble Ewing (80) about life in the South during segregated and integrated times. Mrs. Ewing shares stories of going to segregated schools,...

Today I interviewed my grandfather who attended both college and medical school during the time of segregation.

Grandma's childhood, her life during segregation and the influence of Martin Luther King on her life.

Eugene Milton Williams, also known as "Milton," discusses his life and experience as a member of the Oakland Fire Department. Milton was the first African-American firefighter to integrate Oakland fire houses between 1954 and 1955. This interview was conducted by...