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    Hicks family oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27 The Hicks family remembers their childhood in segregated Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their father, Robert Hicks, a local civil rights leader. They recall leading a children's civil rights march in Bogalusa to protest discrimination at Woolworth's, hosting two white civil rights workers, Bill Yates and Steve Miller, and being protected by the Deacons of Defense and Justice.
    • Contributor: Hicks, Charles Ray - Hicks, Gregory Vincent - Hicks, Robert Lawrence - Collins, Barbara Maria - Hicks, Valeria Payton - Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Burras, Carol Cummings - Hicks, Darryl Robertson
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Lizeth interview conducted by Nubia, 2016-07-13. Nubia, housecleaning day-laborer and activist, interviews fellow housecleaning day-laborer and activist Lizeth [surnames withheld by request]. Like other interviews in this collection, their discussion focuses on the following themes: her biographical and background information; domestic workers' overview of their work inside their employer's homes and how they frame it as "real work"; how the domestic workforce negotiates and balances their work in other people's...
    • Contributor: Brooklyn Arts Council - Occupational Folklife Project
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Interview with Branden Montgomery, Naples, Italy, November 16, 2001
    • Contributor: George, Scott Edward - Montgomery, Braden
    • Date: 2001-11-16
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    Interview with Nicole Roach, Naples, Italy, November 19, 2001
    • Contributor: George, Scott Edward - Roach, Nicole
    • Date: 2001-11-19
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    John and Jean Rosenberg oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Prestonburg, Kentucky, 2013 August 15 Jean and John Rosenberg begin this interview with recollections of their families' backgrounds. Jean learned about social issues as she was raised by a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, and John's family fled Germany under threat from the Nazis. Jean attended Wilmington College and became a research analyst for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. John grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina, where FBI...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Rosenberg, John M. - Cline, David P. - Rosenberg, Jean Voelker
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Bobbie Sotin interview conducted by Nathan J. Moore and Donald Eugene Stacy, 2015-01-21 Bobbie Sotin discusses the rewards and challenges of working as a home care provider in Coos County, Oregon. She also talks about her union activism and the changes that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has brought to the field. She recalls her earlier jobs, her training, the challenges of temporarily filling in for other people's long-term clients, the awkwardness of receiving gifts from...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Moore, Nathan J. - Stacy, Donald Eugene - Sotin, Bobbie
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Maria Varela oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Pasadena, California, 2016 June 29 Activist and MacArthur fellow, Maria Varela, recalls her role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), discussing her work in organizing adult literacy programs in Mississippi and her role as one of SNCC's only female photographers. Offering a Mexican American perspective of the Civil Rights Movement, she identifies how SNCC embraced multiculturalism, extending its activism to include the Chicano Movement. She reflects on her...
    • Contributor: Varela, Maria - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Bob Milne at the Library of Congress an oral history with David Sager videorecording | 1 digital video file (1 hr., 9 min., 15 sec.) : sd., col. | Interviewer: David Sager; piano: Bob Milne. (Cast). Courtesy of Bob Milne. (Permission). Bob Milne, ragtime pianist, discusses and demonstrates ragtime music performance practice in an interview with David Sager, Library of Congress. (Summary). Recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium, October 15, 2004. (Venue). Courtesy of Bob Milne. (Copyright Notice)....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Sager, David - Milne, Bob, Pianist - Coolidge Auditorium (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2004
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    William Duvall interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2013-12-02 Joe Duvall grew up in the Mammoth Cave area (Barren County, Kentucky) and began his career as a cave guide at Diamond Caverns, a nearby private cave. This interview features stories about his work for competing caves (during a period known as "the cave wars"); going to work at Mammoth Cave--first working at the hotel, then as a cave guide; his days teaching high...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Duvall, William - Björkman, Brent
    • Date: 2013-01-01
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    Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan in New York, New York, 2010 October 23 Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial and his service in the segregated army during World War II. He recounts his career as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, including the Brown v. Board of Education case and...
    • Contributor: Sullivan, Patricia - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Carter, Robert L.
    • Date: 2010-01-01

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    Michael D. McCarty oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Los Angeles, California, 2016 June 26 Michael "Mac" McCarty talks about joining the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago, IL. He discusses racism in Chicago and the leadership of Fred Hampton of the Party and the beginnings of the Rainbow Coalition that brought together African Americans and Appalachian whites. He recalls the circumstances under which Hampton was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 21 by the COINTELPRO operation of...
    • Contributor: McCarty, Michael D. - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01
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    Sarah Ahmad interview conducted by Dr. Julie Pearson Little Thunder, 2021-01-15 In this interview, visual artist Sarah Ahmad discusses her exposure to art growing up in Pakistan and the importance of education for her family. She describes her experience attending the National College of Art in Lahore and how it broadened her worldview and artistic ability. She talks about art finding her after living in the United States for several years and some of the...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Little Thunder, Julie Pearson - Ahmad, Sarah
    • Date: 2021
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    Joel Gillespie interview conducted by Brent A. Bjorkman, 2014-04-23 Joel Gillespie first considered becoming a park guide in fourth grade and began working at Mammoth Cave as a seasonal employee in 2004. With some prior experience working in zoos, he found becoming an interpreter was an easy transition. He talks briefly about not being "omniscient" and collaborating with co-workers to acquire and incorporate new information. He talks about his research that has enabled...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Björkman, Brent - Gillespie, Joel
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Walter Bruce oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Durant, Mississippi, 2013 March 11 Walter Bruce shares memories of his childhood in Durant, Mississippi, where his family sharecropped. As a young man he became a carpenter and also a gospel singer. He describes his early involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, including his participation in Mississippi Freedom Summer. Bruce was involved in community and political organizing throughout the 1960s, from helping to start health clinics and participating in...
    • Contributor: Bruce, Walter - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Dittmer, John
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 December 02 Eddie Holloway discusses growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as well as his involvement in Freedom Schools and other civil rights causes. He remembers his experiences as a child in a segregated society and school system, attending University of Southern Mississippi during its transition from a segregated to an integrated school, and his observations of the current educational environment as Dean of Students at USM.
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Bishop, John Melville - Holloway, Eddie A. - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Joye Willman interview conducted by Helen Marie Moss, 2014-10-20 Joye Willman shares how a disabled friend's struggles led her to become a home care worker, and her experiences in helping to form the home care worker's union fifteen years ago, including being at all of the bargaining sessions over the years.
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Willman, Joye - Moss, Helen Marie
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Freddie Greene Biddle oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Washington, DC, District of Columbia, 2015 December 10 Freddie Greene was born in Greenwood, Mississippi on February 15, 1945. She discusses how living in a segregated community exposed her to the early efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. She reflects on her decision to leave Greenwood and attend Dillard University in New Orleans in 1962. Feeling disconnected with the movement, she became a participant in the McComb project during Freedom Summer 1964....
    • Contributor: Greene, Freddie - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Steve Jobs : the lost interview
    Lost interview Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did an hour-long interview with Steve Jobs, shortly after Jobs was ousted from Apple and two years before Jobs would return to take over Apple. Jobs discusses his early days, career battles, and vision for the future.
    • Contributor: Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm) - Sen, Paul - Oregon Public Broadcasting - Magnolia Pictures (Firm) - Jobs, Steve - Stacey, Nic - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - John Gau Productions - Segaller, Stephen - Cringely, Robert X. - Gau, John
    • Date: 2012
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    Jim Gray interview conducted by Jonathan E. Kay, 2014-02-13 A long-time employee of the Department of Natural Resources, Jim Gray retired as the property manager for Harmonie State Park in February, 2014. In this interview, he describes growing up on Lake Michigan and being hired at Dunes State Park, then taking higher-level positions at Spring Mill-- where he met his wife Lois Mattino Gray--and then his move to Harmonie. He shares stories about...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Kay, Jon - Gray, Jim (James)
    • Date: 2014-01-01
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    Cynthia Baker Anderson and Fletcher Anderson oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Bogalusa, Louisiana, 2011 May 27 Cynthia and Fletcher Anderson remember the segregation and job discrimination they faced in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and their decision to join the Civil Rights Movement. Fletcher recalls working many different jobs at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill, the harassment of the police and Ku Klux Klan, and joining the Deacons of Defense and Justice. They discuss their job discrimination lawsuits, their friends involved in the...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Anderson, Fletcher - Anderson, Cynthia Baker
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Kay Tillow oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Louisville, Kentucky, 2013 August 14 Kay Tillow describes learning about the Civil Rights Movement as a student at the University of Illinois, where she got involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She remembers attending the trials of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers in Cairo, Illinois, and traveling to Ghana in 1962. When she returned to the United States in 1963 she participated...
    • Contributor: Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Tillow, Kay
    • Date: 2013-01-01

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    Interview with Alicia Kellam, Naples, Italy, November 16, 2001
    • Contributor: Kellam, Alicia - George, Scott Edward
    • Date: 2001-11-16
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    M. Teresa Valero interview conducted by Dr. Julie Pearson Little Thunder, 2021-04-02 In her interview, Venezuelan-born graphic designer and photographer Teresa Valero describes what she loves about teaching--specifically teaching at University of Tulsa--and shares the challenge and importance of keeping students engaged while learning remotely during the COVID quarantine. She explains what subjects capture her eye for photography and she shares her future post-retirement plans.
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Little Thunder, Julie Pearson - Valero, M. Teresa
    • Date: 2021
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    Charles F. McDew oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Albany, Georgia, 2011 June 04 Charles McDew recalls growing up in Massillon, Ohio, his family's involvement in the steel mill unions and attending South Carolina State University. He remembers being arrested three times in two days for not obeying segregation laws in South Carolina, founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and registering voters in Mississippi.
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - McDew, Charles
    • Date: 2011-01-01

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    Nargiza Turanova interview conducted by Sonia De La Cruz and Helen Marie Moss, 2015-03-07 Nargiza Turanova describes her experiences as a home care worker. Originally from Turkey, she moved to Uzbekistan and then came as a refugee to the US. She speaks Turkish, Uzbek, Russian, and "some English." She began her training before coming to the US and has continued her care giver's training here, specializing in caring for the sick and elderly. Her current client speaks Turkish...
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Moss, Helen Marie - Turanova, Nargiza - Cruz, Sonia De La
    • Date: 2015-01-01