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Folklore Archive: Student Field Projects Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: WSOH002714
Abstract
The Folklore Archive, established in 1939 by WSU English professors Emlyn Gardner and Thelma James, contains the oldest and largest record of urban folk traditions in the United States. To document these traditions, Wayne State University students conducted field research projects that included oral history interviews. Collection consists of audio recordings of 55 interviews (or aggregations of multiple interviews on a single topic) conducted by student interviewer-collectors, some of which,...
Dates:
1961 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1971
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Wayne State University Oral History Course 2014 Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: WSOH002785
Abstract
This collection consists of 16 oral history interviews. These can be broken into four categories: Southwest Detroit, Michigan Environmental Justice, Economic Development in Detroit, and Policing Detroit. There are transcripts and audio recordings for all 16 interviews.
Dates:
2014
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- African Americans 1
- Appalachians (People) 1
- Cass Corridor (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- Coal miners 1
- Community activists 1
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1943 1
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Riot, 1967 1
- Detroit trash incinerator 1
- Economic development 1
- Environmental justice 1
- Ethnic groups -- United States 1
- Folk music 1
- Folk songs 1
- Folklore 1
- Hispanic American women 1
- Jews. American 1
- Journalism 1
- Labor union locals 1
- Manners and customs 1
- Mental health 1
- Nursing 1
- Polish Americans 1
- Prohibition -- United States 1
- Religious life 1
- Rural-urban migration -- United States 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Traditional medicine 1
- Wayne County (Mich.) 1
- Women -- Folklore 1 ∧ view less
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- Detroit (Mich.). Police Department 1
- Merrill-Palmer Institute 1
- New Detroit, Inc. (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- Stephens, Thomas W. 1
- Wayne State University 1
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