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21) Voices of freedom: an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
In this companion to the acclaimed television series "Eyes on the Prize", the authors draw on nearly 1,000 interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, to weave a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement as told by the people who lived it.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits...
Publisher
University of Nevada Oral History Program
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"Filmed in pinyon-juniper forests east of the Sierra Nevada, 'Tah gum' accompanies a group of Washoe women as they gather pine nuts, roast them, and talk about the old days. Historic photos and film footage from the 1940s illustrate the evolution of pine-nut gathering and processing in the twentieth century and some of the social atmosphere surrounding the activities. The film ends with a feast of Washoe traditional foods, including pine-nut soup"--Container...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"'A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled'--President Bill Clinton; 'Fascinating. Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx'--Barbara Walters; A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs--the Bronx--through some of its many success stories. The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the...
25) Shoah
Series
Criterion collection volume 663
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming SHOAH is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture—from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire “The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful.”٬٢٠١٤؛Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things)...
27) Rabbit boss
Publisher
University of Nevada, Reno, Oral History Program
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
"Every autumn, in sagebrush valleys east of the Sierra Nevda, Washoe Indians renew an ancient connection with their natural environment. When the time is right a leader known as the "rabbit boss" assembles a group of hunters to move through the brush, driving jackrabbits before them. ... On-site footage and historic photos and film show how the rabbit drive has survived, and record the making of one of the last of the magnificent Washoe rabbit-skin...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Harold Lloyd, and nearly four hundred others, assembled from the American Film Institute’s treasure trove of interviews, reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood...
Author
Series
Nevada biographical oral history volume no. 2
Publisher
Oral History Program
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Author
Series
Great Basin history of medicine volume 2
Publisher
University of Nevada Oral History Program
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first-ever oral history of the attack that started the Civil War that combines illuminating historical narrative with intense first-hand accounts. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops began firing on Fort Sumter, beginning the bloodiest conflict in American history. Since that time numerous historians have described the attack in many well-regarded books, yet the event still remains overlooked at times in the minds of the public. The Cannons...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years. These interviews have been a personal passion project for...
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