First Person-Resources

Resources for Juanita Nelson’s Oral History

• Jim Crow Resources from “Separate is not Equal” Web site
• Examples of Jim Crow laws from different states—Created by Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Interpretive Staff
• Wikipedia article about Civilian Public Service camps
• The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It – PBS Documentary about American conscientious objectors and World War II. Wally Nelson was featured in this documentary.
• Swarthmore College Peace Collection—Civilian Public Service Personal Papers and Collected Materials, 1939-present, Online Catalog
• Article about Freedom Rides from the King Encyclopedia, which appears on Stanford University’s The King Center Web site
• Online transcript of the Tedford P. Lewis oral history interview from the Conscientious Objector Project - ORAL HISTORY T-233 conducted on JANUARY 16, 1973 from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection University of Missouri, St. Louis
• President Lyndon Johnson’s televised and radio-transmitted speech given on July 2, 1964, the day that he signed the Civil Rights Bill—From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
• The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee
• Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. (New York: Penguin Books), 1987. The companion volume to the PBS Television series
• Oral History Index at the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Web site
• More Civil Rights oral histories at the Voices of Civil Rights Web site
• Wikipedia article about Civilian Public Service camps
• The Good War and those who refused to fight it—PBS Documentary about American conscientious objectors and World War II; Wally Nelson was featured in this documentary
• Koinonia Farm Web site
• Briars in the Cotton Patch, The Story of Koinonia Farm—The PBS Web site for a one-hour documentary about Koinonia Farm
• Letter from Clarence Jordan to President Eisenhower dated January 22, 1957 (quoted above) From the Briars in the Cotton Patch: The story of Koinonia Farm Web site
• Full-text version of Clarence Jordan’s Cotton Patch Gospels online
• Juanita Nelson, “A Matter of Freedom,” Liberation, September 1960.

Resources for Robert Romer’s Oral History

• The March on Washington: Marking the 40th Anniversary of the Historic Civil Rights Protest, From the National Public Radio Web site
• Official Program for the March on Washington From Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives
• Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech – Presented at the March on Washington August 28, 1963; Washington, D.C., Audio, video, and text
• The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee
• Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. (New York: Penguin Books), 1987. The companion volume to the PBS Television series
• Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez, editor. Letters from Mississippi: Personal Reports from Civil Rights Volunteers of the 1964 Freedom Summer. (Brookline, Massachusetts: Zephyr Press, 2002)
• Oral History Index at the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Web site
• More Civil Rights oral histories at the Voices of Civil Rights Web site
• Voorhees College Web site
• Full-text online version of Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” (1849)—originally “Civil Disobedience” was published with the title “Resistance to Civil Governments”
• American Experience: Vietnam Online—An online companion to the PBS television series Vietnam: A Television History
• Oral Histories at the Vietnam Project Web site of Texas Tech University—Virtual Vietnam Archive

Resources for Ray Elliot’s Oral History

• Emmett J. Scott, Scott's Official History of The American Negro in the World War, 1919—From the World War I Document Archive Web site (http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/Scott/ScottTC.htm)
• African American Odyssey: World War I and Postwar Society, From the Library of Congress Web site (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aopart7.html)
• Full Text of W.E.B. Du Bois, "Returning Soldiers," The Crisis, (May 1919), From The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Web site, a part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1127.htm)
• Full Text of General Pershings' Secret Information for the French Military published as "A French Directive," The Crisis, (May, 1919), From The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Web site, a part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1135.htm)
• The Sojourner Truth Housing Project (http://www.detroit1701.org/Sojourner%20Truth%20Housing%20Project.html) From the Detroit: The History and Future of the Motor City Web site
• A Chronology of African American Military Service—From the AfricanAmericans.com Web site (http://www.africanamericans.com/MilitaryChronology3.htm)
• Timeline of the Desegregation of the Armed Forces—From the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Web site (http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/desegregation/large/index.php?action=chronology)
• Text version of Executive Order 9981—From the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum Web site (http://www.trumanlibrary.org/9981a.htm)
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, Army Map Service Topographic Map Series—From the University of Texas Libraries Web site (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/index.html)
• Washburn, Patrick S. "The Pittsburgh Courier's Double V Campaign in 1942." American Journalism Vol. III (1986), no. 2: 73-86.
• Transcript for the PBS Documentary The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords from PBS Online Web site: (http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/film/index.html)
• Beals, Melba Pattillo, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, (New York: Washington Square Press), 1994.
• The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Web site (http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_Bill_Info/history.htm)
• The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Web site (http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/Nuclear+Test+Ban+Treaty.htm)
• President Lyndon Johnson's televised and radio-transmitted speech given on July 2, 1964, the day that he signed the Civil Rights Bill-From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640702.asp)
• The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Tennessee (http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org)
• Juan Williams. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. (New York: Penguin Books), 1987. The companion volume to the PBS Television series.

Resources for David Cohen’s Oral History

• Transcript from The American Experience film America and the Holcaust - from the PBS.org Web site (www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/transcript/index.html)
• Full Text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's I hate War speech presented at Chautauqua, New York, August 1936 (www.sagehistory.net/worldwar2/docs/FDRChautauqua.html)
• Full Text of the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can't Happen Here published in 1935 - from the Project Gutenberg Australia Web site (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html)
• Learn about the National D-Day Memorial located in Bedford, Virginia - at the National D-Day Memorial Foundation Web site (http://www.dday.org/index.php?page=education)
• Transcript from The American Experience film The Battle of the Bulge - from the PBS.org Web site (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/filmmore/pt.html)
• For a fact sheet about the accomplishments of the 4th Armored Division during World War II - at the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Website (http://www.battleofthebulge.org/fact/fact_sheet_of_the_4th_armored_di.html)
• Full Text of General Patton's Final General Orders - at the Patton Society Web site (http://www.pattonhq.com/textfiles/thirdhst.html)
• Learn more about the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Web site (http://www.ushmm.org/)
• Read more about World War II veteran Kurt Klein, see the transcript from The American Experience film America and the Holocaust - from the PBS.org Web site (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/filmmore/transcript/transcript1.html)
• Order a free copy of One Survivor Remembers, an educational kit which includes a documentary film about Gerda Weissman Klein's (Mrs. Kurt Klein) life, primary documents from her private collection, teachers' guide, and resource booklet from the Teaching Tolerance Web site. [For teachers, librarians] (http://www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/index.jsp)
• Read the full text of President Harry S. Truman's "Statement and Directive by the President on Immigration to the United States of Certain Displaced Persons and Refugees in Europe," December 22, 1945--from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Web site (http://trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=515)
• Learn about the history of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society - at the HIAS Web site (http://www.hias.org/who-we-are/history)
• Listen to and read Elie Wiesel's "Perils of Indifference" speech presented in Washington, D.C. on April 12, 1999 - at the American Rhetoric Web site (http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ewieselperilsofindifference.html)
• Learn more about the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Web site (http://www.ushmm.org/)

Resources for Dr. Ruth B. Loving’s Oral History

• In Motion: The African American Experience Web site, presented by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, to learn more about the Great Migration. (http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm;jsessionid=f830897511252941740616?bhcp=1)
• The NAACP Web site for a history of the NAACP. (http://www.naacp.org/about/history/)
• The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library Web site for the full text of W.E.B. Dubois' Souls of Black Folk. (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DubSoul.html)
• The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Web site to read and see more about the Roosevelt administration. (http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/)
• The New Deal Network to learn more about the programs of the New Deal, including the Civilian Conservation Corps and Social Security. (http://newdeal.feri.org/)
• The National World War II Museum Web site for a fact sheet (PDF) about the World War II home front. (http://www.nationalww2museum.org/assets/pdfs/home-front-fact-sheet.pdf)
• The USO Web site to read about the history of the USO. (http://www.uso.org/whoweare/ourproudhistory/)
• The U.S. Army Center of Military History for a short history of the Women's Army Corps [WAC]. (http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/WAC/WAC.HTM)
• The Academy of Achievement: A Living History Museum Web site to read and view an interview with Rosa Parks. (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1)
• The Smithsonian Institution Web site for the online exhibit "Vote: The Machinery of Democracy." (http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/)

Resources for Paul Slater’s Oral History

• To view a multimedia map and timeline of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor visit the National Geographic Web site (http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/)
• To learn more about the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard visit the Brooklyn Navy Yard Industrial Park Web site (http://www.brooklynnavyyard.org/history.html)
• Destroyer Escort Historical Museum—on board the USS Slater (http://www.ussslater.org/index.html)
• Animation of an American tanker, vulnerable to U-Boat attack, silhouetted against the night skyline. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Noblackout.gif)
• For online interviews from the Destroyer Escort Sailors Association Oral History Project visit the In the First Person Web site

Resources for Dorothy Pryor’s Oral History

• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html)
• Online Text of W.E.B. Dubois, Souls of Black Folk, 1903. (http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DubSoul.html)
• Full text of "Opinion by Frank P. Graham, National War Labor Board, Case No. 771 (2898-CS-D), In the Matter of Southport Petroleum Company (Texas City, Texas) and Oil Workers' International Union, Local 449, CIO, June 5, 1943" from the History Matters Web site. (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5145/)
• To learn more about the history of racial segregation in American education, visit the Library of Congress online exhibit, "With an Even Hand": Brown vs. Board at Fifty" (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.html)
• History of the Springfield Armory from the National Park Service web site (http://www.nps.gov/archive/spar/history.html)
• To learn more about the history of Shays’ Rebellion, visit the “Shays’ Rebellion and the Making of a Nation” website (http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/)
• To learn more about the history of women working in World War II, visit “Rosie the Riveter: Women working during World War II” at the NPS Web site. (http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/rosie.htm)
• To learn more about the economic history of the Springfield in the twentieth century, read the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Affairs Discussion Paper, “Toward a more Prosperous Springfield, Massachusetts: Project Introduction and Motivation” (http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/pcadp/2009/pcadp0901.pdf)

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