SOHP, in collaboration with Carolina K-12, is excited to announce and solicit applications for its second summer of the Carolina Oral History Teaching Fellows in Civil Rights.  

This blog post was written by intern Samantha Gregg “I didn’t care about wanting it for the mix, but I wanted it for equal rights. I wanted my children to have equal rights. If they would give me equal rights … Continued

This post was contributed by Adrienne Petty. Three years ago, historians Mark Schultz and Adrienne Petty set out on an urgent mission to record the stories of African American farm owners. Time was of the essence. Land ownership among African … Continued

The new site, which allows users to navigate oral histories in new ways, aims to encourage discovery and listening.

Drawn from interviews conducted during the Civil Rights History Project (a joint undertaking of the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress) with Gwendolyn Duncan, Robert Hayling, Guy and Candie Carawan, William Anderson, Purcell Conway, Dorie and Joyce Ladner, Ann Avery, … Continued

This pathbreaking project is introducing a new, audio-visually rich way of exploring oral histories.

We are honored to be conducting interviews for the Civil Rights History Project, a national oral history project mandated by Congress.

Media and the Movement is an oral history project that aims to understand the media environment here in North Carolina before, during, and after the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Interviews with Marian Cheek Jackson led to the creation of the Jackson Center for Saving and Making History.