The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Home is where I make it - oral history collection

Repository: University of Southern Maine Libraries. Special Collections

Collection Description (Extant): This oral history project was directed by Dr. Maureen Elgersman Lee, of USM, and Rachel Talbot Ross. The interviews were conducted by local high school students. The Collection includes transcripts, photographs and audiotapes from the two phases of the project, which documented African American life in the Greater Portland and Lewiston-Auburn areas.

Collection URL: http://library.usm.maine.edu/specialcollections/collectionsdescriptionsAACofM.html

Date(s): 2001-2003

Digital Status: No

Extent: 1 ft.

Language: English

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African Americans--Maine
Portland (Me.)

Genres:

Interviews
Photographs
Sound recordings
Transcripts