Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. 1940-1997 and n.d. (bulk 1993-1997).

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Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South. 1940-1997 and n.d. (bulk 1993-1997).

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Chiefly interviews recorded on cassette tapes (10670 items, dated 1940-1997 (bulk 1993-1997). The printed materials with the collection include biographical information about informants, interview agreement forms, proper names sheets, brief summaries on the interviews, and transcripts of approximately 314 interviews. The transcripts are also available as electronic documents. The 1260 interviews, 1993-1997, in this collection cover a number of topics related to African-American life in the 20th century with a focus on the age of southern segregation. The collection includes interviews with people from Albany, Ga.; Fargo, Ark.; Birmingham and Tuskegee, Ala.; Charlotte, Durham, Enfield, New Bern, Wilmington, and Craven County, N.C.; LeFlore County, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; Muhlenburg County, Ky.; New Iberia and New Orleans, La.; Norfolk, Va.; Columbia, Orangeburg, St. Helena, and Summerton, S. C.; and Tallahassee, Fla. (00-000) The addition (01-132) (15 items, n.d.) contains framed duplicates of photographs collected by the staff of the Behind the Veil project. The addition (01-183) (100 items, 1.5 linear feet; dated 1996-1997) includes a course syllabus, interviews of African-American North Carolinians on cassette tapes, some student self-evaluations, contracts, indices, and transcript excerpts. The area most represented is Durham, N.C. Students were to aim for insight into how African-Americans built communities during an age of racial oppression. The interviews include much information about family history and social and community issues. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation.

11018 items (69.9 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8302469

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South.

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Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies

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The Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize is awarded by Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies to a writer and a photographer in the early stages of a documentary project. The prize was created to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. From the description of Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Exhibition collection, 1996-2003. (Duke Univer...

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