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Discussed civil rights issues then and now.

This interview was conducted on January 7, 2018 via Skype. Cecilia Cain from Niskayuna, NY interviews her father, Gerry Cain, in Norfolk, VA. Gerry talks about what it was like growing up with a chronic illness in an African American...

My father, Rudolph Burwell Sr, was one of early group of black police officers that joined the Norfolk Police Department in 1968. This is his story of his experience.

Nicole Overton (16) interviews Jackie Overton (72) who currently lives in Rocklin, California. She asks her about her life growing up in Louisiana during the late1950s and early 1960s, her fondest memories from her teenage, child, and adult years, and...

Life 1942-2017

In 1958 the Governor of Virginia closed all of the white public schools rather than integrate. In that same year my mother, Barbara Burwell, attended Norfolk Catholic High School who had already integrated. This is the story of her experience.

Talked about equality

We talked about how it was like growing up for him

I talked with my grandma about her life and stories from her past.

Life of Stan Clements. History, Family, Wisdom.

An interview with a working-class Nashville Native. You can hear about family history, civic engagement in Nashville, and passions of my grandfather.

My lovely great grandmother talks about the wars and hard times she has endured in her life.

Clifford King Harbin explains life in inner city Atlanta in the 60’s and her experience going to school with Martin Luther King Jr.’s sons.

We talked about my grandpas early life, service in the Korean War, and his view of America today.

I interviewed my grandmother about her life. We talked about positive and negative aspects of her life, her relationships with mentors and family, and her parent's lives.

My grandmother who is 72 year olds now lived through the civil rights movement and she reflects a lot on how hard it was to become a successful black woman as she faced such hardship.

My grandma talks about her experience in chapel hill and in getting her job as the President of the American Correctional Association.

His grandfather was a priest who has the ability to create relationships between spirits/demons and human. Because his father fought for Burma's independence against the British and was a leader for Civil Rights Movement under a Dictatorship government, my uncle...

Evelina talks about growing up in the south as a young girl. Picking cotton, going to school, and living life in the 40s as a black child.

The challenges of being a principle while in a minority and the Civil Rights Movement.

I interviewed my god mother

My grandmother, Lynne Rosenfield, told me about her experience as a professional artist and her experience on the Panel of American Women that fought against segregation in Mississippi.

I asked my grandmother about her childhood and how she wants to affect the world. I generated an understanding of how our major family tradition is to to good in the world.

Lois Doyle Schwall tells us a story about her time as a student at the University of Virginia in the late 1950’s and about how she literally and metaphorically stood up against racial segregation at the University.

What Carole’s life was as a child and how it is to be a grandmother.