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African American History Project

The African American History Project (AAHP) is an archive of over 600+ oral history interviews conducted with African Americans throughout Alachua County, wider Florida, and the American South.  The collection includes memories of many facets of Black life in Florida, and is the one of the largest public African American history collections anywhere.      Archival Collections Oral history […]

Joel Buchanan Archive

The Joel Buchanan Archive of African American Oral History contains over 700 oral history interviews with African American elders throughout Florida and the wider Gulf South. These interviews and the overall projects associated with them have resulted in numerous public programs, university seminars on African American history and Ethnic Studies, and community-based oral history workshops.The archive contains […]

Welcome to Reanimating African American Histories of the Gulf South

Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), UF Department of Linguistics, and George A. Smathers Libraries are proud to announce the establishment of an NEH-funded collaborative project entitled, Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South (RGS). The project’s foundation is the Joel Buchanan African American Oral History Archive, which is ongoing and currently contains over 1000 […]

Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Project

The Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Oral History Project (URP) gives voice to one of America’s most pivotal and under-documented social movements: the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad conducted people seeking freedom from slavery to safety along a secret network, until at least the end of the Civil War. A partnership between SPOHP and the […]