This event is conducted in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association grant, "Latino Americans: 500 Years of History," organized by Sarah McNamara (UNC - Chapel Hill) and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. First published in 1971, The Truth About Them is the saga of a Cuban-American family’s experiences in New York …
This event is conducted in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association grant, "Latino Americans: 500 Years of History," organized by Sarah McNamara (UNC - Chapel Hill) and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Put your walking shoes on for a tour through time of historic Ybor City with Tampa Bay Historic Center …
Oral historians work today in a social context of rising economic inequality, mass incarceration and neo-liberalism. Ideas of the public good are being subsumed in favor of privatization and gentrification. What role(s) can oral history and story-telling play in such a crisis era? Paul Ortiz is the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program …
“Gator Tales” is an award-winning play scripted and directed by UF Arts Professor Kevin Marshall using archived narratives of first generation African American students at the University of Florida. The performance brings to life the voices of those African Americans in Gainesville who struggled for civil rights and educational equality for all.
Join us on February 28, 2017, as we welcome acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award winning filmmaker Errol Webber for a screening of Love and Solidarity. Their film illuminates the struggle against violence and the fight for human rights, peace, and economic justice through interviews with Reverend Lawson and archival film footage. By illuminating his extraordinary experiences, the film also sheds light on nonviolent social change at the forefront of contemporary civil rights struggles.
Beginning Thursday, March 16th, the SPOHP Radio Hour hits the airwaves DAILY at 8:00 a.m. on WUBA 88.1 FM. Drawing from the 7,500+ interviews in the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program archive at the University of Florida, the SPOHP Radio Hour will air daily at 8 am on WUBA 88.1 FM with fascinating stories on people from all walks …
We are excited to announce that SPOHP will be hosting the visit of Chicano slam poet Matt Sedillo during which he will be hosting two public programs on Tuesday March 28th. The first event will be a brown bag lunch with Matt Sedillo in Pugh 210 from 11:30AM to 1:00PM. The second event will be a poetry workshop held on the …
Join us as we reflect upon the past 13 years of the Mississippi Freedom Project and on memorable trips to the Delta.
Please complete the application below by June 4, 2021, at 11:59 PM. If you have any questions, feel free to email the trip coordinator: Omar Sanchez (omar.sanchez@ufl.edu
Thank you for your interest in the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program's 13th annual Mississippi Freedom Project Trip! The trip is scheduled for the week of July 12- July 19th.