Oral histories
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: An interview that records an individual's personal recollections of the past and historical events; the audio or video recordings, transcripts, and other materials that capture and are associated with such an interview.
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Curriculum package for South Carolina Voices
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1070
Collection Overview
This collection consists of 12 videocassettes of taped interviews with South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust, participated in liberating the camps, or otherwise witnessed the Holocaust and 2 copies of the resource guide, South Carolina voices: lessons from the Holocaust. The curriculum package is provided by South Carolina Educational Television (ETV) as part of its Holocaust forum.
Dates:
1991-1992, 1999
Found in:
Special Collections
Dart Library Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1200
Abstract
The Dart Library Oral History Project contains five oral histories documenting individuals' experiences of using the library at Dart Hall and attending dances in the second floor of the Hall. Participants also discuss family history, their memories of Jim Crow segregation in Charleston, and their professional careers. The oral history project was undertaken by the Avery Research Center as part of the 85th anniversary commemoration of the John L. Dart Library. The oral histories were...
Dates:
2012
Director's Cut Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1209
Abstract
The Director's Cut Oral History Project is a series of six video oral history interviews recorded in 2025 with current and former living directors of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Participants discuss a wide variety of topics including their professional lives, what brought them to Avery, accomplishments and challenges from their tenure, the role the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture and Averyites from the Avery Normal Institute played...
Dates:
2025
Edmund Lee Drago collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract
Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates:
1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991
East Side Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1199
Abstract
The East Side Oral History Project collection contains three oral history interviews conducted by Elizabeth Alston as part of the research process for the Charleston Museum Leaflet Number 30, Between the Tracks: The Heritage of Charleston’s East Side Community. Included in the collection are transcripts of the oral histories conducted with Lorraine Fordham, Frances Mack, and Phillip Simmons. In their interviews, interviewees discuss growing up on the East...
Dates:
approximately 1980-1987
Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1120
Abstract
The collection consists of photographs, photograph albums, diaries, scrapbooks, High School of Charleston and university materials, correspondence, travel souvenirs, oral histories, and family interviews of Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro. The majority of materials document Sandra Garfinkel Shapiro's youth, from her teenage years through her graduation from University of North Carolina in 1957, with the largest portion of the collection consisting of photographs of Sandra and her...
Dates:
1901-2014; Majority of material found within 1935-2002
Found in:
Special Collections
Oral History Interview questions, 2001 - 2002
File — Box 105, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds correspondence, grant proposals and applications, press releases and newspaper articles, historical committee documents, oral history interview questions, biographical/manuscript documents, and various notes.
Dates:
2001 - 2002
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 4: Religious Affiliations and Organizations
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4.2: The Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and Auxiliaries
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4.2.2: Women's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention (WBEMC) of South Carolina
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4.2.2.6: WBEMC History Project
"Preliminary Inventory", 2003
File — Box 105, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds correspondence, grant proposals and applications, press releases and newspaper articles, historical committee documents, oral history interview questions, biographical/manuscript documents, and various notes.
Dates:
2003
Found in:
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
/
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
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Series 4: Religious Affiliations and Organizations
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4.2: The Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and Auxiliaries
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4.2.2: Women's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention (WBEMC) of South Carolina
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4.2.2.6: WBEMC History Project
William Smyth audio collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1202
Abstract
The William Smyth audio collection, 1985-1994, contains ten oral histories, conducted by William Smyth, and eight music recordings. The oral history participants discuss life in the Charleston area during the 1950s with specific focus given to the Civil Rights Movement and segregation. The music recordings include Gullah Geechee artists from the Lowcountry such as Ron and Natalie Diase (Beaufort), the Brotherhood Gospel Singers (Mt. Pleasant), unidentified "Sea Island Singers," and a...
Dates:
1985-1994
South Carolina Black Legislators Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1198
Abstract
The South Carolina Black Legislators Oral History Project contains seven oral histories conducted by the Avery Research Center. Participants discuss their family history, their interest in politics, accomplishments during their political careers, and thoughts about the state of South Carolina politics and their political legacies. Interviewees include Rep. Alma Bryd, Sen. Herbert Fielding, Chief Justice Ernest Finney, Sen. Maggie Glover, Rep. Brenda Lee, Rep. David Mack III, Sen. McKinley...
Dates:
1999-2000