Race and Change Oral History Project, Circa 1999-2016

Scope and content:

The Race and Change Project series contains multiple interviews with African-Americans, Whites and immigrants regarding their memories growing up in Broward County, the United States, and other countries. Subjects also include family and community lifestyle, race relations and societal change from the late 1920's through the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and desegregation.

The series contains audio and visual content of participants from the Race and Change Project including research composed by students Kitty Olver taught, and an essay written by Deborah Works: Historical Sketches and Rare Glimpses of the North Fork of the New River: a history of its natural and human environments (2001). Majority of Dr. Oliver's questionnaires, transcripts and interviews consists of ongoing research study of race and ethnic relations, geographical history and social change through the collection of oral histories of Whites, Blacks/African-Americans and immigrants of various Hispanic/Latinx, Caribbean and Asian backgrounds. Research sites includes the South Florida cities of Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Miami, Opa-locka, Delray Beach and Boca Raton; North Fork and Liberia – historically significant Black/African-American communities; towns along Florida's landmark Lake Okeechobee; Stranahan High School in Fort Lauderdale; and Ghana, West Africa – where women who have experienced America's racial climate shared their stories.

The series is organized into six sub-series: Race and Change Project, Stranahan High School, New River Cultural Environmental Survey, Ghanaian Women, Notes and Materials, and Race and Change Project: Hollywood, Florida Oral Histories (Cassette Tape Interviews).

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