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Selected List of S.C. Oral History Resources
   at the South Caroliniana Library

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NOTE: Other oral histories available at University Archives and South Carolina Political Collections.

UNPUBLISHED ORAL HISTORY RESOURCES

  • Berry, Aimee R.
        
    Aimee R. Berry Collection
        An Oral History of Neeses, South Carolina
        (1997)


  • Dennis, Rembert Coney (1915-1992)
        Rembert Coney Dennis Oral History
        (1995)

  • [Mount Pleasant (S.C.)]
        Summary of oral history project in Mount Pleasant (S.C.)
        (1991)

  • Myers, Constance Ashton
        Constance Ashton Myers collection, 1973 - 197u
        (1970s)
            - - Wilhemina Behlmer

            - - Rosamonde Ramsay Boyd

            - - Laura M. Bragg (1881-1978)

            - - Clara Hammond Buchanan (b.ca. 1901)

            - - Niels Christensen ( b. 1913)

            - - Alderman Duncan

            - - Carrie Pollitzer

            - - Mabel Pollitzer

            - - Eulalie Salley (1883-1975)

            - - Marguerite Tolbert (b.1893)


  • Nealey, Bertha West (1893-1988)
        Interview
        (1981)

  • Porter, Kristie
        The Legal Committee of the South Carolina NAACP and the struggle
        for civil rights in the 1960s
        (1990)

  • Smith, Henry (1912-2002)
        Henry Smith Oral History Interview Transcript
        (1997)

  • Theus, Margaret J. Gibbs
        Margaret J. Gibbs Theus Interview Collection
        (1979 - 1983)

  • Vernon, Amelia Wallace (b.1926)
        Finding Aid to the AWV Oral History Collection
        (1979 - 1983)
        2.5 linear ft. (2 cartons)
        (Located at Annex; advance notice required)

  • Waring, Julius Waties (1880-1968)
        Reminiscences of J. Waties Waring
        (1957)


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  • Hurmence, Belinda (editor)
        Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-Seven
        Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves
        (1989)


  • I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice
        10 Voices: Ten African American Women That Made a Difference
        (2007)

  • Inabinet, Charles and Judi
        Telling It Like It Was
        (1977)

  • Lindsay, Nick
        And I'm Glad: an Oral History of Edisto Island
        (2000)

  • Marscher, Fran
        Remembering the Way It Was at Hilton Head, Bluffton, and Daufuskie
        (2005)

  • Rawick, George P.
        The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (1972)
                  and Supplements (1977, 1979)
    "Volumes 2-17 consist of transcriptions of narratives prepared by the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-38, Works Projects Administration, and deposited in the Library of Congress.... Commonly called WPA slave narratives."

            - - The American Slave (1972)
                      (19 Volumes)
                      South Carolinians interviewed in Series one (Volumes two and three)

            - - Supplement (1977)
                      (12 Volumes)
                      South Carolinians interviewed in Series one (Volume eleven)

            - - Supplement (1979)
                      (10 volumes)
                      South Carolinians interviewed in Series two (Volume one)


  • Walker, Melissa (editor)
        Country Women Cope With Hard Times: A Collection of Oral Histories
        (2004)


  • ONLINE ORAL HISTORY RESOURCES                  
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  • Federal Writers' Project (S.C.)
        Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
        Part of LC's American Memory Project.


  • H-Oralhist Discussion List
        Online discussion board devoted to issues and discoveries in oral history.


  • Library of Congress
        Many materials relating to South Carolina people and history.


  • McKissick Museum at USC:

            - - Digital Traditions:
                    “a public access initiative for folklife & material culture”

            - - Folklife Resource Center


  • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Libraries

            - - Documenting the American South
               Primary resources for the study of Southern history, literature and culture.

            - - Southern Oral History Program
               Audio, transcripts, and other resources from the
               Southern Historical Collection.


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