Locating articles utilizing journal databases. Listed below is a sample search in the America, History and Life database.
Results: 101 Records
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Sample records:
Title: A CASE OF "SOUTHERN CIVILITY": AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DESEGREGATION OF TULANE UNIVERSITY.
Authors: Williams, Keira V.
Source: Louisiana History. Oct2006, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p417-433. 17p.
Historical Period: 1950 to 1963
Document Type: Article
Abstract: Narrates the struggle to desegregate Tulane University during the civil rights era, especially the experiences of two of the main plaintiffs of the landmark lawsuit 'Guillory' v. 'Adminstrators of Tulane University,' Pearlie Elloie and Barbara Guillory Thompson. Though New Orleans prided itself on its multiethnic history and reputation, when 'Brown' v. 'Board of Education' challenged school segregation, racial tensions flared. White residents resorted to a "massive resistance" model of legislative, extralegal, and illegal barriers to integration, including cutting funds for integrated schools, denying admissions to state-funded universities, intimidation, and illegal purges of black voters from voter registration lists. Progressive white New Orleans leaders, such as civil rights attorney John P. Nelson, were effective in blocking most of these efforts and were instrumental in forcing Tulane University to admit Elloie and Thompson through a lawsuit challenging the university's status as a private institution. Though the case hurt the social standing and careers of Nelson and others, Elloie and Thompson were largely shielded from vitriol surrounding the case and open expressions of racism by the code of "Southern civility" that precluded hostility toward women.
Notes: Based on documents from the John P. Nelson Papers, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, interviews, periodicals, and secondary sources; 75 notes.
Title: 'I'm a Keeper of Information': History-Telling and Voice.
Authors: Williams, Rhonda Y.
Source: Oral History Review. Winter/Spring2001, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p41. 23p.
Historical Period: 1965 to 1995
Document Type: Article
Abstract: Explores the concept of "voice" in oral history practice. This concept encompasses not only the vocalization of words in interviews but also nonverbal communication and performative aspects of storytelling during interviews. This added dimension of the oral information interviewees provide about themselves and their lives is critical in contextualizing and evaluating how respondents make sense of their world. Excerpts from interviews conducted with two black female public housing activists in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960's demonstrate the value of appreciating the voice of narratives and also contribute to understanding the relationship that develops between the researcher and the respondent. Studying voice and the performance aspect of interviews reveals "multiple layers of knowing and subjectivity" of interviewees and not just the basic facts of their lives.
Notes: Based on interviews and secondary sources; 49 notes.
Title: From Anecdote to Analysis: Oral Interviews and New Scholarship in Educational History.
Authors: Dougherty, Jack
Source: Journal of American History. Sep99, Vol. 86 Issue 2, p712-723. 12p.
Historical Period: 1960 to 1999
Document Type: Book Review
Reviews & Products: ROAD to Brown (Book) and ALONG Freedom Road (Book)
Abstract: Describes and gives examples of how oral history can greatly inform and amplify scholarship in some fields of historical research. Using recent studies of the working lives of women teachers and black education during the school desegregation period as examples, the author discusses the analytical benefits of oral history while highlighting the potentials for inaccuracy in simple anecdote. When a guarded approach takes into account and limits such factors as "the bias of euphoric recall," the influence of current historical conditions, and the impact of dominant collective memory, historical accuracy is maintained and the result is often a more complete and compelling appreciation of events, movements, and lives. Comparative analysis of the differing insights provided by multiple preexisting oral histories has the potential for even further illuminating important historical subject matter which may be prejudiced or insufficiently informed by single-perspective accounts.
Notes: Based on oral histories by Constance Curry, David S. Cedelski, Vanessa Siddle Walker, Kathleen Weiler, and Kate Rousmaniere, other primary sources, and secondary sources; 32 notes, appendix.
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Title: IF I MUST SAY SO MYSELF": ORAL HISTORIES OF RURAL WOMEN.
Authors: Osterud, Nancy Grey and Jones, Lu Ann
Source: Oral History Review. Jun1989, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p1-23. 23p.
Historical Period: 1800 to 1999
Document Type: Article
Abstract: Reviews oral history collections of women of color and of regions differing from the dominant model of agricultural production, focusing on Native American and African American women of the South, Southwest, and West. Histories of Native Americans raise questions of cross-cultural gender relations and are valuable for analysis of the connection between the women's role in agricultural production and their roles as preservers and transmitters of culture. Southern life histories and former slave narratives provide material on the dynamics of race, class, and gender. A survey of California women farmworkers conducted in the 1970's focuses on women of all ethnic and racial groups, including Chinese, Filipino, South Asian, Japanese, Mexican, Chicana, and Anglo women. Other local studies enhance the material on women's agricultural role in California. Collections of Midwestern oral history are valuable for documenting resistance to the imposition of capitalist agriculture.
Notes: Based on oral history collections and author interviews; 44 notes.