Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

Presented in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, “Shade in the Sunshine State: Reflections on Segregation in Florida” is a conversation based on the book by the same name by Sarasota author and historian Liz Coursen. After touching on America’s pre-1920s history, “Shade” will combine contemporaneous ephemera—postcards, city directories, photographs—with first-person …

Dr. Steve Davis is assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky and earned his doctorate at UF. His publications include "Struggle History and Self-Help: The Parallel Lives of Nelson Mandela in Conventional and Figurative Biography" in African Studies (2014); "Training and Deployment at Novo Catengue and Jack Simons' Diaries" in Journal of Southern African Studies (2014); …

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 …