Southern Oral History Program’s Videos
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Kiddie World Hero: The Story of Alice Ballance, performed by Jaimee Bullock
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April 23, 2012 performance for Introduction to Oral History: The “Long Civil Rights Movement” in Memory, Story, and History taught by Professor Jacquelyn Hall.
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As as fourteen year-old photographer, Cecil Williams showed up to the aftermath of a Klan rally. The Grand Dragon was surprised to see a black kid with a camera.
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The Reverend Joseph Lowery, longtime activist and Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader, and who delivered the convocation at Barack Obama's 2008 presidential inauguration, recalls his emotions…
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Simeon Wright & Wheeler Parker Jr.
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Simeon Wright and Wheeler were spending the summer with Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. They knew they were in trouble when Emmett whistled at a white woman. Here, they remember the night they…
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As a sixteen year-old, Jamila Jones traveled from her home in Montgomery, Alabama, to the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee to meet civil rights activists and share freedom songs. When…
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The Civil Rights History Project
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The Civil Rights History Project, mandated by an Act of Congress, is a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Folklife…
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Angelia Sliger grew up in the Bumpus Cove community in the mountains of Tennessee. Her mother, Gail Randolph, was a leader in an environmental justice movement to stop toxic dumping in their community.…
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Margaret Herring used her southern accent, and a cover story that she was a freelance journalist, to interview officials in Selma, Alabama, to determine where their intentions with regard to civil…
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Margaret Herring (full interview)
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Margaret Herring became involved in the civil rights movement through her work for syndicated newspaper columnist Drew Pearson. Opening his mail, she repeatedly encountered press releases from the…
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"Not Making It More Than It Was"
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In this excerpt from an emotional interview, Carol Hallstrom, who worked for SNCC in Mississippi, describes wrestling with issues of gender, race, and memory during her experiences in the 1960s and…
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North Carolina has the eighth-largest immigrant population in the United States, and immigration has made it among the fastest growing states in the nation. The Southern Oral History Program wanted…
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The Long Road to Brown, the Long Road Beyond
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This short documentary, pairing audio from Southern Oral History Program interviews and images from the Southern Historical Collection, explores the past, present, and future of racial segregation…
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