African American History Project - SPOHP
2014
The Alachua County African American History Project enables the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program to conduct and transcribe oral histories with African Americans in Alachua County, University of Florida, and surrounding areas who came of age during the final decades of legal segregation. AAHP involves students who conduct oral histories as part of research seminars and community-based internships. These histories are used to establish an archive of black historical narratives on segregation and the civil rights movement. Researchers will explore themes such as landownership, labor, entrepreneurship, civil rights, education, and histories of institutions such as schools, churches and civic organizations.