Telling Their Stories

High School students in McComb, Mississippi join Telling Their Stories

Civil rights figure Brenda Travis, the catalyst for the voting rights movement that was sparked in McComb, MS, in August 1961, visited Urban last week for the first formal recorded account of her role in that historical event. Students in Urban's oral history class teamed with four McComb high school students who traveled to the Bay Area to interview and publish an oral history of Ms. Travis for Telling Their Stories.

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This NEW version of Telling Their Stories is still undergoing change. Enjoy the new look.

Stories of the Civil Rights Era
Interviews with elders who witnessed the struggle to achieve voting rights
for African Americans in the early 1960's. READ MORE »

Holocaust Survivors and Refugees
Over 30 hours of interviews with eight Jewish survivors and refugees from Poland, Germany, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Austria. READ MORE »

Liberators and Witnesses to Genocide
Soldiers who witnessed Nazi concentration camps including Buchenwald, Ordruff, Dachau, Hemer, Ebensee, Gunskirchen, Gardelegen, and Mauthausen. Also, a witness to the Rwandan genocide. READ MORE »

Japanese American Internees
Eleven Japanese Americans deported to internment camps during WWII
including Topaz, Manzanar, Tule Lake, Heart Mountain, and Minodoka.
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Fillmore Redevelopment/Dislocation - coming soon...
Five residents and former residents of the historically African American Fillmore
District of San Francisco discuss urban changes resulting from redevelopment. READ MORE »

Teacher Workshop: 5-day intensive
Telling Their Stories: Producing Web-Based Digital Video Oral Histories
July 19-23, 2010

Interview with Wilma Bass
See the educator's interview with
Wilma Bass, trauma therapist,
July 28, 2009