This course is in partnership with the Samuel Proctor Oral History program and is funded by a grant from the Division of Historical Resources. The Old Mount Carmel Baptist Church (dedicated 1944) became an epicenter of Gainesville’s Civil Rights movement when Reverend Thomas A. Wright arrived in 1962 and became a leader of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Students will learn Best Practices in oral history methodology and their final products will be included in an educational video for community use and will be archived at the Matheson History Museum and at UF.
