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Crystal Thompson remembering her grandma, Amy Thompson, also known as Miz Amy

Interview from Uptown, Chicago

This interview provides contextualization and a history lesson for those wondering the origins of Flagstaff's STEM interests and the impact of Lowell Observatory on Flagstaff from its beginning to present day.

Traveling while black means researching more than ticket prices and exchange rates. There's a savviness to surviving racism in the United States and abroad as colorism, cultural appropriation, and xenophobia abound. Robin's faced it all as a black woman teaching...

An interview between me, Leila, and my grandpa, Leonardo where I ask him about the love story between him and my grandma. He talks about how they met, their secret marriage, and the story of his immigration to America with...

I did an interview with a family friend. In this interview, she talks about growing up in the 60’s in a small Mississippi town.

She doesn’t know anything other than this. Mattie burrage talks about life growing up in Mississippi and her move to Michigan. She explains what it was like moving forward. Through out she tells funny,scary and heart warming stories you wouldn’t...

In this interview I ask my mom questions about her life. I lean a few things I didn’t previously know about her and I think it’s brought our connect closer. We had a small talk about some of her life...

This is a conversation with Dr, Alan Lewis held on April 2nd, 2019.

Angie Fryer became a teacher in the 1960s at Trinity University, and went on to teach in San Antonio, Mesquite, and Abilene, Texas. Later she worked with students in Arizona, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kansas.

In this interview on November 25, 2018 in Oxford, Mississippi, Gracie Barrett interviews Linda Brady, her grandmother, about growing up in the South. Her grandmother talks about what she is most grateful for in life and how she hopes she...

Neco oral history

Bradley Smejkal(16) interviews his grandma Trish(76) about her childhood, her life as a parent and her life as a grandparent.

An interview with my dad who grew up in Eugene, Oregon

Joyce Frye, resident of Morrison Village (2503 Old Mobile Ave, Pascagoula, MS 39567) is interviewed by Reba Brown, Library Assistant 1 from Singing River Genealogy-Local History Library on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Ms. Frye discusses her pets, why she moved...

This interview I asked some very philosophical questions that really got my person thinking. He has some very intriguing responses that lead into deep and meaningful conversations

This is a conversation with Dr. Alan Lewis held on April 2nd, 2019.

Ending interview

I interviewed my grandpa, Bill Papierniak, about his experience being drafted into the Vietnam War and how it impacted him.

I interviewed my aunt

Dr. Carlson’s background and work at NECO

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...

This is a conversation with Dr. Tony Cavallerano, held on January 9, 2019.

My Aunt Clara Ree Meggs-Brooks was active in the Civil Rights Movement in Southern Mississippi. One of her roles was to provide transportation and protection for Fannie Lou Hamer

This is a conversation with Dr. Barry Fisch