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Oral histories (literary works)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history interviews

 Collection
Identifier: aarl91-007
Scope and Content Note AIB's video project began in 1990 with several purposes: (1) documenting the reminiscences of elderly members of various Afro-American churches throughout Atlanta through oral history interviews; (2) recording individual church histories; (3) interviewing outstanding personalities of the South who have made a difference to society and documenting their oral history; (4) recording styles of singing and worship that existed in a previous time and which are dying out; and (5) documenting...
Dates: 1990-

General Mills-Kroger oral history collection for the Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library

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Identifier: aarl94-004
Overview The collection consists of videotapes and cassette tapes of the General Mills-Kroger oral history collection for the Friends of the Auburn Avenue Research Library from 1994-ongoing. The collection contains interviews with a variety of individuals including African American businessmen and women, journalists, educators, librarians, community and civil rights activists. The materials document civil rights activities in Atlanta (Ga.), businesses in the Sweet Auburn District of Atlanta, the...
Dates: 1994-1999

Kathleen A. Hauke Papers

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Identifier: aarl94-013
Overview The collection spans from 1980 - 2004, the bulk of which dates from ca. 1990 to 1989, and contains interview transcripts, manuscripts, and other publications related to the literary career of Kathleen A. Hauke and Ted Poston, his contributions to journalism, and her contributions to African and African American biographies, which includes works recounting the lives of Langston Hughes, Ted Poston, Crystal Bird Faust, Elsie Roxborough, African and African American youth and members of her own...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1980 - 2004

Living Atlanta oral history collection

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Identifier: aarllivingatlanta
Overview Taped interviews, radio programs, transcripts of some of the interviews, material relating to funding, and background research, of the oral history project Living Atlanta: an Oral History of the City Between the World Wars, produced by Radio Free Georgia Broadcasting Foundation between 1977 and 1978. Topics include Atlanta Crackers baseball team, blues, business, economic conditions, education, Jews, Ku Klux Klan, police, politics and government, race relations, and social life. Persons...
Dates: 1977-1985

Sweet Auburn Neighborhood Project oral history interviews

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Identifier: aarl93-002
Overview The collection consists of oral history interviews and transcripts of interviews of residents and merchants in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia in 1978. The interviewees discuss personal background, social and economic conditions among the African American residents of Sweet Auburn, recollections of the riot of 1906, the fire of 1917, the Depression, the Butler Street Urban Renewal Project (1950s), cross-town migration, and the civil rights movement. The collection also...
Dates: 1978