Oral History and Jim Crow

On this Podcast we talk with Professor Paul Ortiz director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. We spoke with him about his experience conducting oral histories. As a graduate student at Duke University he worked with the Behind the Veil Project which recorded the oral histories of Southerners who experienced Jim Crow Segregation. He collaborated on the radio program and book Remembering Jim Crow with other people involved in the program as well as using some of those oral histories in his own book Emancipation Betrayed about black organizing and protest in Jim Crow Florida.

In the Podcast we spoke about the book The Southern Past by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, in case anyone wants to examine that work further.

You can listen to the podcast by clicking this link. This is an MP3 so it is audio only.