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My Grandpa grew up in Iran and came over in 1954. This is a interview with him about his life and memories throughout historical events.

In this interview, conducted on December 1, 2019, in Plano, Texas, Kendall Kohn (16) interviews her grandmother Elizabeth Kohn about her experience growing up in a segregated town. Ms. Kohn shares her experience in a small southern town, and what...

Civil Rights

Black History Month project for my African American History class

In this interview, it was conducted in the family home between Anthony Cowen (31), and his grandmother, Joyce Cowen (72) about what she could remember about growing up during 1960's Civil Rights Movement and President Lyndon Johnson. She shares what...

Me and my grandfather, Barry, talked about growing up in Virginia, being in the military during the Vietnam War, and the impacts of segregation in his life. He talks about what school was like through elementary, junior high, and high...

Grandpa Jerry (78) and grandson AJ (17) talk about how Jerry lived during the 1960s and what he did for his normal life and how major things during this time affected him.

In this interview, Olivia Simpson-Klein converses with her grandmother, Mary Klein, about how her upbringing in Florida influenced her beliefs and behaviors today. She speaks to the stained racial relations and segregation in the South as well as her response...

Kaela Frank: 2020-12-02 00:54:40

I interviewed my grandmother, who lived in the Oakland/Berkeley area in the 1960s and 1970s, on her personal experience living in a place where the Civil Rights movement was centered around.

my 56 year old grandma sharon

While I interview my uncle bay we talk about civil rights his background and about this generation.

Snippets from the life of David DeLaOsa

My grandmother was offered a scholarship to go to a HBCU in the 70s, she lived in Virginia at the time but was born in New York.

Interview on civil rights

In this interview Reese Martin(17) and Marissa Reck(18), talked with Walt South(68). We discussed Walt’s home life around the 60’s, including where he went to school, what activities he did in and out of school, and information about his family....

One Small Step partners Sandy Wheeler (40) and Donald Cowles (75) examine their shared experience as military kids, explore the similarities and differences in their political values, reflect on the challenge of engaging across political differences, and connect over their...

Edwin Adkins: 2020-08-01 20:40:52 Move from Kopperston to Huntington, W. Va. to attend Marshall U. Civil rights group at Marshall, how she met my father (Ronald Adkins) and how they conducted demonstrations.

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.

Dr. Imani Woody (68) relates her life history to Maria Santiago (34). She describes growing up in segregated Washington, D.C.; living through the civil rights movement; her mother's early and preventable death; and reflects on the American race riots of...

I interviewed my god mother

My grandmother, Penelope Ann Lowe Burke, was born on August 31, 1942 in Houston, Texas. At the age of 9, she moved to a small Quaker town called Friendswood, Texas where she lived for nearly six decades. The town was...

Steve Hockett and his mother Betty, age 90 who is on Providence hospice share family recollections of Betty's many missionary trips overseas to developing countries and the influence in her early life of reading and how being a prolific writer...

My Grandaddy Portage from the Civil Rights

Ummikulthoum Achieng: 2024-03-24 20:41:10 talks with 62-year-old Chris Hagan about his life during the 1960s.