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Interview With Otis Cunningham, Danny Fenster

Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement

Length: 98 minutes

Oral history interview of Otis Cunningham by Danny Fenster

Mr. Cunningham begins by explaining what it was like growing up amidst the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, witnessing the reactions to the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He explains how he first became involved in activism for African liberation movements when he joined the African-American Solidarity Committee where he served on the editorial board of their journal and he elaborates on the work they did. He recalls the social gatherings that sprung up through the movement. He explains the complicated history and relationships …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

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Mckinney, Todd And Mckinney, Stephanie, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

This is was a two-person interview by Dr. Naison. The interviewees go back and forth speaking in the transcription.

Stephanie Woods was born on May 4^th 1966 in Fordham Hospital in the Bronx. Her family was living at the 439 Crotona Park North in a private house until 1991. Stephanie’s mother was born and raised in Harlem. Stephanie’s father was from Danville, VA. Stephanie mentions that he mother loved Hip-Hop and was the reason for life long love of Hip-Hop as her mother was the one who introduced her to it and would take her to street event, known …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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Silverman, Carol, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

BRONX AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT

INTERVIEWER: Dr. Oneka LaBennett

INTERVIEWEE: Carol Silverman

SUMMARY BY: Andrew O’Connell

Carol Silverman, an anthropologist born and raised in the Northeast Bronx, sits with Dr. Oneka LaBennett in this interview to talk about her childhood, her witnessing of the community’s deterioration in the 1970s and her fieldwork as an anthropologist with Romani people in the Bronx.

Born on March 30, 1951 on Intervale Avenue in the Northeast Bronx, Silverman spent the first twenty some odd years of her life living in the borough. Silverman describes the area she grew up as secure as comprised of …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

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'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives, Lynnell L. Thomas

American Studies Faculty Publication Series

This article explores the emergent post-Katrina tourism narrative and its ambivalent racialization of the city. Tourism officials are compelled to acknowledge a New Orleans outside the traditional tourist boundaries – primarily black, often poor, and still largely neglected by the city and national governments. On the other hand, tourism promoters do not relinquish (and do not allow tourists to relinquish) the myths of racial exoticism and white supremacist desire for a construction of blacks as artistically talented but socially inferior.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

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Campbellsville - Taylor County, Kentucky Oral History Project (Fa 202), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 202. Project includes 22 interviews with African Americans concerning their lives as Taylor County, Kentucky residents. Interviews are on compact discs with interviewer's notes included. Topics discussed include: family life, when and why they live in Taylor County, childhood experiences, community involvement and personal opinions about Taylor County.

Ua1c3 Portraits Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Portraits of people not otherwise categorized. This section includes unidentified images.

Peterson, Robert, Mark Naison

Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP)

Interviewee: Robert Peterson

Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison, Kathleen Palmer

Date of Interview: August 5, 2009

Summarized by Michael Kavanagh

Born in Brooklyn, December 18th 1926, Peterson has lived in the Bronx most of his life. His Father’s parents were first generation European immigrants from Sweden and Norway, respectively. They both settled in Yonkers, NY, where they first met and later got married. In 1895, Peterson’s father was born in Yonkers, NY. At the beginning of World War I, his father joined the United States Navy as a ship navigator. When World War I ended, his father returned home and worked …

Cenance, Robin, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Interviewee: Robin Cenance

Interviewer: Mark Nasion

Date: July 15^th 2009

Robin Cenance was born in New Orleans and moved to Harlem at the age of one. Cenance went to PS 43 in the South Bronx; it was a predominantly black and Latino neighborhood and school. The South Bronx Community Action Theatre was a popular and successful program that provided dance classes, drama classes and plenty of other programs that encouraged kids to get into the arts.

Cenance goes on to talk about the living situation. The projects were completely different back in the 60s than they are now. They …

U.S. President Barack Obama And Pope Benedict Xvi, Antigua Post Office

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican,, Antigua & Barbuda, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection.

Book Review (Judith Kilpatrick's There When We Needed Him: Wiley Austin Branton, Civil Rights Warrior), Sophia Z. Lee

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Resistant Place Identities In Rural Charleston County, South Carolina: Cultural, Environmental, And Racial Politics In The Sewee To Santee Area, Cassandra Y. Johnson, Angela C. Halfacre, Patrick T. Hurley

Environment and Sustainability Faculty Publications

The cultural and political implications of landscape change and urban growth in the western U.S. are well-documented. However, comparatively little scholarship has examined the effects of urbanization on sense of place in the southern U.S. We contribute to the literature on competing place meanings with a case study from the rural “Sewee to Santee” region of northern Charleston County, SC. Our research highlights conflicting cultural, environmental, and racial politics and their roles in struggles over place meanings. Using focus groups, interviews with elected officials, and participant observation, we document initial African American resistance and eventual compliance with the prevailing anti-sprawl …

Certificate: Appreciation To Rodney Hurst From Durkeeville Historical Society

Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers

Certificate of appreciation to Rodney Hurst for his valuable contributions to Durkeeville Historical Society Inc. June 27, 2009.

Black Heritage Stamp Series: Anna Julia Cooper, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Informational pages for Anna Julia Cooper Commemorative stamp – Black Heritage Series, includes images of the stamps, information about the physical stamps and biographical information for Anna Julia Cooper. First issued June 11, 2009, 32nd in a series.

U.S. President Barack Obama Visits Germany, Gambia Postal Services Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

President Barack Obama, Bishop Jochen Bohl and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, The Gambia, Sheet of 4 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection.

Nesbitt, Robert, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Robert Nesbitt (b. January 8, 1924) was a soldier in the Tuskegee Airmen unit during World War II. He was born in Harlem, on 125^th St. and Broadway, the son of an ex-military father from South Carolina and a mother from North Carolina. During this time, Harlem was fairly integrated: his neighbors included blacks as well as Irish, Jews, and Italians. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Corona in Queens, to an almost universally black neighborhood. Unlike many young African-American men, Nesbitt attended high school at Haarem high, where he developed a passion for mechanics …

U.S. President Barack Obama, Washington, D.C., Grenada Postal Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

President Barack Obama plays football with the family dog Bo on the South Lawn of the White House, Grenada, sheet of one. stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection.

Ua12/2/1 Stress Busters, Wku Student Affairs

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Special finals week edition of the College Heights Herald.

Ua12/2/1 A Guide To Graduation, Wku Student Affairs

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Special commencement edition of the College Heights Herald.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 84, No. 52, Wku Student Affairs

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 84, No. 51, Wku Student Affairs

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"Hey Young World”: Hip-Hop As A Tool For Educational And Rehabilitative Work With Youth, Heather Day

American Studies Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

Program: Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission Preservation Awards

Textual material from the Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Papers

Jacksonville Historical Preservation Commission awards held on May 1, 2009