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History Websites

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

This is a post originally from a couple of years ago, updated with a new find at the bottom: Some of my favorite websites are those that feature interviews with black people who were former slaves or who lived under segregation. For future reference, I'm going to make a list of the websites that I've come across over the past year or so. Most fascinating of all is the Library of Congress's Voices From the Days of Slavery, which has several interviews recorded with actual former slaves. This Washington Post story gives a good idea of what the recordings are like. The Virginia Center for Digital History sponsors what it call the "Esmont Oral History Project. No former slaves, but several interesting interviews with elderly black people about their lives during segregation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 31, 2009 (boomark / email).