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and other parallel movements in the South, such as the women's movement, but has also frequently turned to local stories of southern communities. These interviews focus on three main areas: race and the public schools, economic justice, and gender and sexuality. In 2008, the SOHP received a $ 937,000
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interviews with southerners who have made important contributions to various fields, been involved in specific historical movements, or lived through times of southern transformation. Since its founding, the
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began working to digitize 500 SOHP oral histories and provide online access to full audio, transcripts, and lesson plans for use of online oral histories in the classroom. Most of the collection has been digitized and is available online, and all new oral histories are now "born digital," created
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searchable by subject, project, interviewer, interviewee name, occupation, ethnicity, or interview number is available online. Traditionally, all oral histories have been accessible only on-site in the reading room of the
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United States and the world. Graduate students and faculty at UNC and the SOHP as well as independent researchers work to collect oral histories with the goal of "rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources."
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