In the spring of 1968, parents living in the predominantly Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Brownsville submitted demands to the New York City Central Board of Education. Disillusioned and frustrated with the quality of education given to their children attending the district’s still largely segregated public schools, parents requested the right to hire and …
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In addition to learning about the history and background of formal oral history education in the US, namely Allan Nevins’ development of the oral history project at Columbia University, this set of readings was most intriguing to me in their discussion of the role of the interviewer and specifically the interviewers’ relationship with their subject. …
My name is Tamar Sarai Davis and I’m currently a second-year History PhD student at Temple University. My primary objective for this course, The Theory and Practice of Oral History, is to gain firsthand experience with producing an oral history project. I’m also really excited to continue pulling on some of the threads established last …
Welcome! As a part of our course on Oral History, I’ll be maintaining this blog to capture my thoughts, reflections, and learnings. Thank you for joining this journey with me, and I’m excited to share as I learn and delve into the past.