subj17. Oral History Holdings

Content Description Reverend John Charles Mickle was a United Church of Christ minister, who retired from his pastorate in 1982. This collection includes correspondence, church bulletins, biographical data, and a photocopy of an article from JET magazine. Also included are biographies and family photographs, as well as degrees and certificates awarded to Mickle. Of special note are oral history interviews with Mickle conducted by Roger Knight on December 10, 1989, and church reports and newspaper articles on...

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This collection consists of articles on Calvin Moret, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen during WWII, and the Tuskegee Airmen. The collection also includes a recording of his talk at the Friends of the Amistad Research Center in April 1996.

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Oral history interview with Gorham B. Munson, who discusses the life and literary career of Jean Toomer.

Content Description This collection contains videotapes, audiotapes and transcriptions of interviews conducted by Mary  Anne Mushatt along River Road, near New Orleans, Louisiana. The interviews form the basis of Mushatt’s MFA thesis project, Lion’s Tale. Interviewees include Kathe Hambrick, Executive Director of the River Road African American Museum & Gallery in Donaldsonville; Darryl Daniels, Project Manager for the Historic River Road Project; and Gray Hawk Perkins,...

Content Description This collection includes 59 audiocassette tape interviews with 27 Louisiana-based musicians across multiple genres, including jazz, zydeco, classical, R&B, and Mardi Gras Indian traditions. The collection was formed out of a project funded by NOJHF and coordinated by Tom Dent from 1983-1988. The Foundation donated the collection to Amistad prior to the formation of its own archives.Interviewees include Placide Adams, Alvin Alcorn, Morris Ardoin, Danny Barker, Alvin Batiste,...

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This collection of interviews contains six tape recordings of the Odyssey Through Literature radio program, which was produced as a continuing education service of the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State University. This collection includes recoded broadcasts of Dennis Brutus; Kashim Tala on the oral literature of Cameroon; Ali Haji Papa Bunko Susso and Nakoyo Susso on the role of the griot in Africa; J. M. Coetzee; and Chaim Potok.

Content Description The papers of prominent psychologist James S. Peters, whose work as a research assistant during WWII helped to desegregate the US Navy, a contribution formally recognized when Peters was inducted into the first class of the Connecticut Veterans Hall of Fame in 2005. His papers contain correspondence, writings, reports, clippings, book reviews, speeches, vitae, manuscripts, legal papers, financial records, various collected items and collected publications and various ephemera pertaining to...

Scope and Contents The Ed Pincus collection consists of approximately 90 hours of 16mm black and white film footage used to create two civil rights era documentaries, Black Natchez and Panola. Filmmakers Ed Pincus and David Neuman shot the footage in Natchez, Mississippi, between June and September 1965. In 1967, they returned to Natchez and shot 10 additional hours of film for a planned sequel to Black Natchez,...

Content Description The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Collection encompasses ten digital mp4 video interviews with original residents of the safe haven all-black suburb, Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans, formed during the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation. The second oldest black suburb, built between 1955 and 1961, Pontchartrain Park was envisioned and developed by and for middle and upper-class African Americans who were denied the opportunity of homeownership in historic and new suburban...

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Includes two audiocassettes of oral history interviews with Lula Reed, as well as writings and press clippings, several of which were authored by Reed for publication in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.