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Oral histories of the American South (Georgia selections)

Georgia-related oral histories from the Southern Oral History Program.

More About This Collection

Contributor to Resource
Southern Oral History Program

Date of Original
1972/2006

Subject
Civil rights movements--Georgia--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia
Women--Georgia--Interviews
Labor movement--Georgia--History--20th century
Georgia--Politics and government--20th century

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434

Medium
oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
texts (document genres)
transcripts

Type
Sound, Text

Description
Oral histories of the American South is a three-year project to select, digitize, and make available 500 oral history interviews gathered by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP). These 500 are being selected from a collection of over 4,000 interviews, housed at the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill' s Library, that cover a range of fascinating topics including: Charlotte, civil rights, Piedmont industrialization, Southern politics, Southern women, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The interviews are available as audio files as well as annotated transcripts.

Metadata URL
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/

Language
eng

Holding Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

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