Italian oral history project audio recordings 1970-1979 1987

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Italian oral history project audio recordings 1970-1979 1987

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv39376

The Italian oral history project audio recordings (1970-1987) consist of interviews conducted with Utahns of Italian descent. Interviews begin with a short biography of the subject and cover topics such as discrimination, labor unions and social events. The American West Center conducted this and other ethnic oral history projects in an attempt to record the experiences Utah's eithnic minorities.

34 reel-to-reel audiotapes and 11 audiocassettes

eng,

ita,

J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Audio Visual Archives

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In 1964, History professors A. R. Mortensen and Gregory Crampton conceived the University of Utah's American West Center (originally called the Western History Center) as an institution devoted exclusively to research on the American West. As a part of its mission to create and disseminate knowledge about the American West, the center established the ongoing Ethnic Oral Histories Project to explore the experiences of Utah members of Native American and ethnic immigrant communities, including the...