This interview features Afrique Kilimanjaro, the current managing editor of the Carolina Peacemaker (One of Greensboro's oldest black newspapers) and daughter of its foun[...]

Bernard Arafat was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where he experienced a dysfunctional upbringing. He discusses how his juvenile delinquency led to him becomi[...]

In 1925, Buford Posey was born to well-to-do parents in Philadelphia, MS. A voracious reader as a child, Posey developed a political consciousness early and stood out fro[...]

Charles Person was born in Atlanta, GA in 1942, and grew up in a section of the city called "Buttermilk Bottom." It was an insular community, with marginalized people (Je[...]

David Dansby, Jr. grew up in Greensboro, NC. His activism started in high school, when along with other young people he tried to integrate the Greensboro Public Library. [...]

Flint Taylor was born and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of a college professor. Following his undergraduate education at a Providence, Rhode Island Ivy Lea[...]

In the first part of his interview, Harold Taylor discusses his childhood and teenage years growing up in Los Angeles. The conversation revolves around personal experienc[...]

Curtis Austin interviews Harold Welton on his experience growing up as a black man in Los Angeles projects during the 1960s and his lifelong activism that began during th[...]

In this part of his oral history, Henry Jones shares his experience of growing up black in New Albany, Mississippi and in San Francisco, California during the 1930s and 1[...]

Hollis Watkins was born in Lincoln County, Mississippi, the youngest of twelve. He grew up in deep poverty in a time when segregation was enforced with constant ferocity.[...]

James E. Ferguson II was born on October 10, 1942 in Asheville, North Carolina as the youngest of seven children. As the student body president of Stevens Lee High School[...]

Jasper Brown was born in Columbia, SC in 1946, and grew up under the full oppression of Jim Crow. He attended all-segregated schools and did well academically, while also[...]

Joseph Williams was born in Greensboro, NC in 1945. He grew up in Greensboro and in Jakarta, Indonesia, where his father worked as an engineer. During his youth Joseph tr[...]

Lewis Pitts was born in 1947 in Clinton, SC. Both of Lewis's parents were college educated, and his mother worked as a school teacher. His father had a small business sel[...]

Linda Sutton was born on March 17, 1950 in Winston-Salem, NC. Attending segregated schools, she graduated from Atkins High School in 1968. Raised in a church-going and cl[...]

Born on June 28, 1955, Mark Rabil grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College and upon graduation made the key decision to become a lawyer. In [...]

"I love the idea of holding people accountable who abuse those of less power." These words are spoken by Mona Lisa Wallace, attorney extraordinaire, fighter for justice, [...]

Owen Brooks, whose parents were Jamaican immigrants, was born in Boston in 1928. After graduating from high school at the age of 16, Brooks served in the Army during the [...]

Phoebe Zerwick was born on May 3, 1960 in New York City. Zerwick grew up in a politically progressive family during the turbulent sixties. She excelled in school and atte[...]

Curtis Austin interviews Ray Boudreaux on his activism during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1970’s which ultimately resulted in his arrest for the 1971 murder of Serge[...]

Reverend Cardes Brown was born in 1945 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. His father was a pastor for over 56 years, and his mother taught school for 40 years in the schools[...]

Steve Allen grew up in the Shiloh community of Greensboro, one of the oldest African-American neighborhoods in the city, dating back over 127 years. The center of the com[...]

Reverend Frank Dew was born in Raleigh, NC and grew up in Lumberton, in the southeastern part of the state. As a White person growing up during the Jim Crow era, he witne[...]

John Mendez was born in New York City on January 7, 1948. He was educated in the NYC public schools. Like many other African-American youth he was placed in a lower acade[...]

Throughout his life, Richard McGough has been a tireless proponent of civil rights who uses his remarkable skills to free the wrongfully convicted and incarcerated. He wa[...]