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Reputation Versus Reality: An Oral History Of Vidor, Texas, Amanda Michel Saylor
Reputation Versus Reality: An Oral History Of Vidor, Texas, Amanda Michel Saylor
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Vidor, Texas is a town learning to manage its past with the Ku Klux Klan and the subsequent legacy of racial intolerance it now carries into the twenty-first century. By utilizing oral history, interviews with the residents (current and former) clarify how Vidorians see their past and form a collective memory. This memory study oral history project chronicles the historical narrative of Vidor and Vidorians based on oral histories of the interviewee’s point of view. It then highlights my mastery of relevant public history and oral history literature while reviewing the best practices of oral history as both a methodology …
Post-Partition Sikh Immigrant Experiences In The United States, Athamjit Singh Dhaddey
Post-Partition Sikh Immigrant Experiences In The United States, Athamjit Singh Dhaddey
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The project titled, "Post-Partition Sikh Immigrant Experiences in the United States," begins to explore the different factors that contributed to the migration of Sikhs to the United States. Beginning during the first decade of the 1900s, Sikhs began to migrate to the United States for a variety of reasons. It wasn't until the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 that we began to see these numbers increase dramatically. The main primary sources in this paper are oral histories from three of those immigrants during that time. With their stories, we are able to dive deeper into the different experiences …