Oral History Collections

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: This collection has been digitized in its entirety.
Where can I find more information?: No finding aid available.
Topics: African-American History
North Carolina
Subject headings: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: 125th Anniversary Oral History Project; A subset of the UNC Greensboro Institutional Memory Collection consisting of interviews related to the university's 125th anniversary celebration in 2017.

: African American Institutional Memory Oral History Project; A subset of the UNC Greensboro Institutional Memory Oral History Collection dealing specifically with the experiences of African Americans on campus.

: Civil Rights Oral History Project; The Civil Rights Oral History Project, created and collected by UNCG Department of History professor William A. Link includes 71 interviews with 66 people, conducted between December 1986 and June 1990. Link personally conducted 40 of the interviews, while Kathy Hoke participated in 14. Other interviewers for the project were Kathy Carter, Kevin Costello, Wayne Jordan, and Mark Dawson. Five additional interviews are considered part of UNCG’s collection. Four were donated to the project by Greensboro News and Record reporter Jim Schlosser, who conducted them with Ima Edwards, Jack Moebes, Jo Spivey, and Geneva Tisdale between 1997 and 2001. The collection was digitized and placed online as part of a collaborative project undertaken in 2005-2007 to provide online access to civil rights oral histories at UNC Greensboro and Greensboro Public Library. Digitization was funded through a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.

: PRIDE! of the Community Oral History Collection; PRIDE! of the Community is an ongoing project documenting LGBTQ+ history in the Triad. The oral history collection consists primarily of oral histories recorded fore the project, but several relevant items from other collections have been included in the digital collection as well.

: Preserving Our History: Rotary Club of Greensboro; The Preserving Our History: Rotary Club of Greensboro oral history project is a collaboration between the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives and the Rotary Club of Greensboro. The project seeks to document the lives of Rotary Club of Greensboro members, as well as a wide variety of issues regarding the history of Greensboro, including economic shifts, race relations, the Great Depression, philanthropy, and religious diversity.

: Triad Black Lives Matter Oral History Collection; Oral history interviews with participants in the Triad Black Lives Matter movement and in the 2020 demonstrations.

: UNCG Alumni Association Oral History Program Collection; UNCG Alumni Association Oral History Program conducted interviews with alumni and former staff between 1972 and 1979 to record the memories of the university's early days. The oral histories were to be featured in the Alumni News from time to time.

: UNCG Centenary Project Oral History Collection; The Centenary Project was established by the Alumni Association in conjunction with history professor Dr. Richard Bardolph in 1980. The purpose of the project was to preserve the memories of female students who graduated from the State Normal and Industrial College, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The interviews focus on alumni who graduated in the early 1900s and include discussions with Gertrude Carraway, Edith Haight, May Williams Hicks, Ethel Harris Kirby, Ione Mebane Mann, Mabel Merritt, Ruth Whittemore Sherrill, and Jane Summerell.

: UNCG Centennial Oral History Project; The UNCG Centennial Oral History Project Collection contains over 170 interviews conducted ca. 1990 under the direction of Dr. William Link, Chair of the Department of History in connection with the university's Centennial Celebration.

: UNCG Institutional Memory Collection; The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Institutional Memory Collection was established in 2006 by the University Archives to preserve the history of UNCG through oral histories. Archives staff members have interviewed alumni, faculty, and staff to record the untold memories of their experience at the University. The African American Institutional Memory Project, part of the Institutional Memory Collection was established to preserve the memories of the black alumni who attended the college during the 1960s.

: UNCG in the 1960s Oral History Collection; The UNCG in the 1960s Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted by students in Professor Peter Carmichael's HIS 520: Southern History "Interpreting and Presenting Southern History to the Public" class taught in the Fall of 2006. Students were instructed to interview either an alumni, faculty, or staff member who was associated with The University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the 1960s. Students were asked to focus on a specific issue or event related to the university's history.

: WUAG-FM Oral History Collecton; The WUAG-FM Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted on air by WUAG-FM, the student-led radio station at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

: Well Crafted NC Oral History Collection; Well Crafted NC is a project documenting the history of beer and brewing in North Carolina. It is a product of the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The collection contains oral history interviews with brewers, brewery owners, brewery employees, and others associated with North Carolina's craft beer industry.

: Women Politicians in Their Own Words Oral History Collection; Women in modern politics represent progressive successes in the fight for gender equality since the brave rebels and pioneers of the suffrage movement. In the 21st Century, much attention is given to women politicians at the national level, leaving women politicians at the local and regional level overlooked and under documented. This project is the first attempt to document women politicians on a local and regional level through oral history interviews with women in the Triad area of North carolina who either currently hold or have held in the past elected office. The interviewees were selected from across party lines. Interviews focused on each woman’s personal and political history, allowing us to document and make available to researchers the women’s experiences in their own words.

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