From Southern Oral History Program Acting Director David Cline …
The Southern Oral History Program and the Long Civil Rights Movement project were well represented at the Oral History Association conference in Louisville, Kentucky last week, October 14-18. Acting Director David Cline attended sessions, met with potential collaborators, and conducted six new interviews about Louisville’s busing history; Outreach Coordinator Beth Millwood presided over a session devoted to Institutional Review Boards; former Associate Director Kerry Taylor presented work on his oral histories of the Obama campaign and black political networks in South Carolina; and former LCRM student research assistants Jennifer Dixon and Rachel Martin presented on their research about Charleston’s 1969 hospital
workers’ strike and school desegregation in Tennessee, respectively. All told, it was a fine showing for the Long Civil Rights Movement project!
Robert O. Self on the privacy quandary in American life.
This talk was part of “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories,” a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program as part of the Long Civil Rights Movement Publishing Project.
Gerald Horne delivers a wide-ranging talk on the global reach of the civil rights movement.
This talk was part of “The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories,” a conference hosted by the Southern Oral History Program as part of the Long Civil Rights Movement Publishing Project.
Where should long civil rights movement scholarship go from here?
We at the Southern Oral History Program are in the midst of planning our next interviewing initiatives and are drawing on what we learned at the conference to help us make sure that the first-person sources we create will be useful to scholars and will help to push the field forward in productive ways. So we are especially eager to have your suggestions along those lines. Our plan in general is to do a few more interviews on our themes of race and the public schools and economic justice campaigns and then to turn to issues of women and gender. In the light of your own work and your sense of where the field is going, which topics, people, stories should we pursue?
Use the comments function to share your thoughts. Thanks for your input!