Oral History Collections

Library of Congress, Civil Rights History Project

An extensive list of oral history interviews conducted by a partnership of scholars and staff at the Library of Congress.

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University of Southern Mississippi, Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage

A large collection of oral history interviews dealing with the Civil Rights Movement.

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Civil Rights Movement Veterans, Our Stories

A collection of oral history interviews and narratives with a variety of veterans of the movement.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Oral Histories of the American South

An 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) Project

A 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 Collection

Eleven taped interviews with icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

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Washington State University, Civil Rights Oral History Collection

A collection of interviews related to the struggle for civil rights in Spokane, WA.

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University of Washington, The Afro-American Project

A 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 Project

Interviews dealing with the struggle to end segregation in Kentucky from roughly 1930-1975

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