Oral History Collections
Library of Congress, Civil Rights History ProjectAn extensive list of oral history interviews conducted by a partnership of scholars and staff at the Library of Congress.
University of Southern Mississippi, Center for Oral History and Cultural HeritageA large collection of oral history interviews dealing with the Civil Rights Movement.
Civil Rights Movement Veterans, Our StoriesA collection of oral history interviews and narratives with a variety of veterans of the movement.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oral Histories of the American SouthAn extensive collection of high-quality oral history interviews documenting life in the South since the Civil War. Includes a large number of interviews dealing with the civil rights era.
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Old Dominion University, Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) ProjectA growing collection of oral histories from teachers, students, and parents who lived through the time of school desegregation.
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Virginia Commonwealth University, Voices of Freedom CollectionEleven taped interviews with icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia
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Washington State University, Civil Rights Oral History CollectionA collection of interviews related to the struggle for civil rights in Spokane, WA.
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University of Washington, The Afro-American ProjectA collection of interviews conducted between 1968 and 1970 with residents of African American communities in Seattle, WA.
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Kentucky Historical Society, Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History ProjectInterviews dealing with the struggle to end segregation in Kentucky from roughly 1930-1975
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