TYPES OF ORAL HISTORIES
EDUCATION
HOUSING
COMMUNITY
Featured Video
This video is an animated oral history illustrates an experience from Dr. Ebony Bailey's (social activist) during her undergraduate years at Washington & Lee University.
“I was just trying to get my education ”
This moment in time displays the lack of inclusion in spaces of higher education. Many people of color having to adapt or conform to historical narratives that do not cater or offend many people of color — In this case promotion of confederate history. Click on the links below to learn why many people of color are deeply effected by confederate history.
These experiences are real, learn more about them…
Students and Faculty Ask Washington and Lee to Change its Name
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton
The Change We Seek utilizes the format of oral history to collect personal experiences from people of color. It is an online archive/exhibition of oral histories that records moments of inequality.
The Change We Seek also produces 2-3 minute animated videos that illustrate significant parts of these oral histories.These forms of media seek to promote constant engagement with the oral history material.
"Oral history is about life as it’s lived. The stories we record may not be what you find in history textbooks, but it’s visceral and (in my mind) the stuff that matters." -Amanda Faye Lacson
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
Dr. Ebony Bailey
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Dr. Eric Bailey
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Mrs. Bertha B. Todd
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Contact us.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Dream it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Dr. Ebony Bailey
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Grow it.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.