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September 06, 2007, 02:51 PM ET
Digital Archive Captures African-American Civil-Rights Stories
Voices of African-Americans who moved to Detroit in the last century to get away from discrimination and Jim Crow laws in the southern United States can now be heard by everyone with an Internet connection.
Marygrove College, in Detroit, has recorded migration stories of people ages 65 to 90 and archived them in its John Novak Digital Interview Collection as MP3 audio files. Each interview also has a transcript or index.
Because of the digital format, these stories can be downloaded for listening while the listener follows along with the transcript, according to Michael Barnes, coordinator of cataloging services at Marygrove. And because the stories are searchable by keyword, he adds, researchers can easily find specific topics of interest.
The full collection debuts on October 9, but some stories, such as one from a woman recounting a lunch-counter sit-in, are already available. —Josh Fischman
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