“Coming home at last; Stetson Kennedy’s work to reside at UF,” The Gainesville Sun, by Jeff Schweers, October 22, 2013. On October 22, 2013, a symposium of events celebrated the donation of Stetson Kennedy’s papers to the University of Florida. The official donation was the result of years of work from the Stetson Kennedy Foundation, USF […]
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“Events mark acquisition; UF celebrates Stetson Kennedy’s work” The Gainesville Sun, by Jeff Schweers, October 23, 2013. On October 22, 2013, a symposium of events celebrated the donation of Stetson Kennedy’s papers to the University of Florida. At 6:00 p.m., a panel event featuring Dr. Marvin Dunn, Lucy Anne Hurston, and Dr. Peggy Bulger discussed the legacy […]
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“UF Oral History Program Digs Deep in the Delta” from the Groundswell Blog, October 4, 2013. Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change is a dynamic, active network of oral historians, activists, cultural workers, community organizers, and documentary artists who are using oral history and narrative in creative, effective and ethical ways to support movement building […]
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“Congratulations to Falana McDaniel and the Samuel Proctor Program” from the McComb Legacies Project Blog, October 10, 2013. In 2012 and 2013, the McComb Legacies Project from McComb High School in Mississippi joined the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program on its annual Mississippi Freedom Project Research Trip. Last year’s Legacies Project coordinator, Falana McDaniel, will […]
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‘“The cool guys in Gloucester, the cool girls in Mathews”: Oral History Reveals Courtship Strategies of Gloucester Youth in the 1940s and 50s’ from the Fairfield Foundation. In August, The Fairfield Foundation wrapped up interviews for an oral history project directed by University of Florida graduate student and SPOHP Graduate Coordinator Jessica Taylor, aimed at recording […]
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“Gainesville 8 Reunion Brings Recollections, No Regrets,” The Gainesville Sun, by Ron Cunningham, September 8, 2013. August 31, 2013 marked the fortieth anniversary of the acquittal of eight Vietnam veterans, the “Gainesville 8,” indicted for conspiracy to violently disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention. A reunion of the activist veterans, lawyers, and family of jury members […]
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Tananarive Due, daughter of civil rights activists Patricia Stephens Due and John Due, remembers the March on Washington from her parents’ stories. USA Today interviewed Tananarive about the event on August 19. Patricia Stephens Due, together with her husband John Due, presented a public program “An Evening with the Dues: Pioneers in the Civil Rights […]
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