Southern Oral History Program

Projects

We are currently focused on The Long Civil Rights Movement initiative, a project intended to better understand how the South has been shaped by the black and women’s liberation movements, the Vietnam War, natural disasters, and conservative politics. Our team of researchers has conducted oral history interviews in Charleston, SC, and Charlotte, NC. Our interview work continues this summer. Read more here.

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SOHP Research Assistant Rachel Martin has been heeding voices from Hayti as part of her project, “The Voices of Hayti: A Community Remembered,” an oral history project that tells the story of the once-thriving black neighborhood which was razed to make way for the Durham Freeway. Rachel spoke recently on the subject. The Durham Morning Herald covered her talk, and the article has generated some response from former Hayti residents (subscribers only).

The Southern Oral History Program holds interviews from a number of former Hayti residents. Interviews available through our collaboration with Documenting the American South, include Asa T. Spaulding, Josephine Clement (one and two), and Margaret Kennedy Goodwin.

Hayti is the subject of Osha Gray Davidson’s The Best of Enemies.

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The SOHP has been doing oral history for more than thirty-five years. Click here to read about some of our past projects.