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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 6 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 / Curriculum package for South Carolina Voices

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
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Edmund Lee Drago collection

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 / Sandra Garfinkel and Morton Henry Shapiro papers

Oral History Interview questions, 2001 - 2002

 File — Box 105, Folder: 6
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 / AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 4: Religious Affiliations and Organizations / 4.2: The Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and Auxiliaries / 4.2.2: Women's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention (WBEMC) of South Carolina / 4.2.2.6: WBEMC History Project

"Preliminary Inventory", 2003

 File — Box 105, Folder: 14
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 / AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 4: Religious Affiliations and Organizations / 4.2: The Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and Auxiliaries / 4.2.2: Women's Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention (WBEMC) of South Carolina / 4.2.2.6: WBEMC History Project

The South Carolina Black Legislators Oral History Project, 2000 - 2005

 File — Box 147, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence with Whipper; project overview and typescript, "How to Record Oral Histories."

Dates: 2000 - 2005
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / AMN 1146, Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 5: Civic, Community, and Social Involvement / 5.6: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / 5.6.2: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston
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