Samuel Proctor Oral History Program

The SPOHP’s Challenging Racism at UF public program series highlights stories of students, community organizers, faculty, and others who have been on the front lines of the effort to create a more just and welcoming world. (Pictured: People gather after the “OverKome! Creating Pathways for Collective Community-Led Development” event.) Read more "Challenging Racism at UF"

The Brown Center for Leadership & Service, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and Beyond120 are partnering to host our Spring walking tour of UF historical sites centered around the April 1971 events of Black Thursday, the power of storytelling, and collective student organizing. Read more "Spring Walking Tour: Black Thursday & Beyond at UF, on Feb. ...

Join us on Wednesday, February 7th from 5-7pm in the Pugh Hall Ocora. SPOHP’s Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) brings students into the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta regions to conduct interviews with civil rights activists and organizers. Interested in taking part? Come and see how you can help document civil rights history with the Samuel Proctor ...

Have you ever wondered how researchers collect primary historical evidence? Well at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program we preserve history by interviewing the people who lived it! Come and see how you can document civil rights history at the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in 2024. Read more "Mississippi Freedom Project Town Hall"

Join SPOHP for our end of year social on Tuesday, December 5th at 12pm! You are cordially invited to the O’Neill Reading Room on the second floor of Pugh Hall for refreshments and merriment. We look forward to seeing you there! Read more "End of Year Social"

HIS4944 Introduction to Oral History: Stories of Freedom Seekers and Freedom Conductors offers students training in the field of oral history, best practices and ethics, and fieldwork and processing. Email us to get on the waitlist for spring! Read more "Calling all UF students!"

SPOHP researcher Dr. Yiorgo Topalidis was recently interviewed on Grecian Echoes – WNTN 1550AM Boston about the Ottoman Greeks of the US Digital History Project and the White Anti-racist Activism Digital History Project. Read more "Meletios Pouliopoulos interviews Yiorgo Topalidis on “Mondays with Meleti”"

UF’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and UNC’s Southern Oral History Program are pleased to welcome Oral History Association conference attendees for refreshments and connections! Read more "Oral History Association Conference Connections for Attendees"

SPOHP, in partnership with the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center, invites the public to “Welcoming Black Faculty to Higher Education: A Racial Justice Town Hall”. The event will be held at the Cotton Club Museum on Thursday, October 12 at 6 p.m. in person as well as in hybrid mode. Read more "Welcoming Black Faculty ...

UF’s Ytori magazine highlights SPOHP’s Challenging Racism at UF initiative. “In oral history, we learn about the power of storytelling. This reveals truths that can sometimes be very uncomfortable,” SPOHP director Dr. Paul Ortiz told Ytori. “If we’re going to be a top-tier research institution, we need to use the tools of historical research to ...