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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
Caption: Cass Lake, 1908
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:42
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Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper at their StoryCorps interview in San Diego, CA on May 11, 2022., Credit: StoryCorps.
Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper sit down at StoryCorps to remember their dad and his commitment to celebrating Juneteenth.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Willie Edwards Jr. died in 1957. He was killed by Klansmen who told him to either jump off a bridge or be shot., Credit: Malinda Edwards and Mildred Betts
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rohulamin Quander at his home in Washington D.C. in 2016 and Alicia Argrett in Madison, Mississippi in 2010., Credit: Rohulamin Quander and Alicia Argrett.
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Norman and Ora Bell have been a household name within the Toledo community for more than half a century. Known for working in local county governme...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:09
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Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2