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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.

“Sometimes the ones you think are your friends are not your friends”

Snippets from the life of David DeLaOsa

Talked about her life in Valdosta, Georgia. Her parents, racial tension, Cold War, Vietnam War, gender roles, etc.

Morris Nathanson, Rhode Island architect and artist, talks about growing up in Pawtucket during the depression, civil rights, and serving in the US navy during the Second World War.

In this interview, conducted in 2017 in Fort Worth, Texas, Emily Kizer (14) interviews her grandpa, Don Kizer (67), about his childhood and family life. Mr. Kizer shared what life was like during the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam...

Sylvia Evans, aged 73 talks about growing up in South Boston (Southie) and everything else in her life. She talks about the lessons that she learned and her journey through life.

Dr. Kristi N. Garrett talks with Dr. David Mathews and Dr. Joffre Whisenton about their days at the University of Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The interview was recorded at the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio...

I learned a lot of interesting things about my family history. I had no idea that my great grandfather marched with Dr. King.

Dad talks about his life after the civil rights movement as a African American

Jane Mahlme's involvement in the League of Women Voters and Town government led her to go to law school as a mother of two & then pursue a fascinating career in public service.