VOICES OF THE PEOPLE ONLINE: New collection of oral histories online

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V. VOICES OF THE PEOPLE ONLINE:
1100 Hours of Oral History Recordings in
Women's, Labor, Ethnic and Community HIstory

The award-winning Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive, California State
University, Long Beach (www.csulb.edu/voaha) now has made available the 1100
hours of original oral history recordings of some 343 people, including
African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latinos/as and
Southern and Eastern European immigrants. They range from farm laborers to
professionals, from social reformers/community activists to anarchists and
communists, from ventriloquists to jazz arrangers. Their narratives,
organized in 30 series, document the US experience, 1890s to 1990s. They are
broken into organic time segments that are summarized and assigned search
terms, enabling users to locate relevant segments by search terms, or
alternatively, to browse the collection hierarchy and listen to entire tapes
or selected segments. (See descriptions of series/topics below).
[Note: some interviews are listed in more than one of the general categories.*]

WOMEN?S STUDIES ­ 142 narrators, 695 hours Topics - 1900 to 1960s: radicals
and reformers; suffragists; women in professions, business and
entertainment; WW2 aircraft workers; women?s lives/women?s work; and garment
workers (labor collection).[See also LongBeach/Community Builders] Topics -
1960s to 1980s: Asian American women?s movement; Chicana feminist activists;
feminist health movement; Los Angeles feminists; and welfare mothers movement.

LABOR STUDIES - 48 narrators, 167 hours Topics: desegregating unions, WW2;
organizing Mexican furniture workers; oil workers organizing and lives;
women garment workers, including organizing of Chicago Women?s Local; and
the lives and experiences of individuals active in the labor movement and/or
who were participants in historic moments in labor history in Flint,
Michigan, Ludlow, Colorado and Oakland, California.

ETHNIC STUDIES - 110 narrators, 256 hours Note: many narrators discuss
ethnic/race relations, but the following refers only to the interviews with
people of color and/or immigrants. African Americans- Topics: desegregating
LA aircraft and shipbuiding unions (labor collection); organizing to open
wartime jobs, and the experiences of the women aircraft workers, women?s
lives/women?s work, and women?s social reform activism (women?s history);
and, civil rights and institution building (Long Beach history). (19
narrators, 53 hours) American Indian Lives ­ Topics: impact of Indian
boarding schools; the occupation of Alcatraz Island (6 narrators/14 hrs);
Asian Americans - Topics: Terminal Island Japanese fishing village (Long
Beach history); Japanese community of South Bay; Asian American women?s
movement (women?s history); and Cambodian and Hmong immigrants (50
narrators, 96 hours). Mexicans/Chicanos/Chicanas - Topics: Chicano Student
Movement; Mexican Revolution; life and work o!
 n Rancho Los Alamitos; furniture workers, and garment workers efforts to
form a Spanish speaking local (labor collection); Chicana feminists,
including founders of Hijas de Cuauhtemoc and Comision Feminil Mexicana; WW2
aircraft workers; and women?s lives/women?s work (women?s history. (35
narrators, 93 hours).

COMMUNITY STUDIES - 91 narrators, 195 hours Topics: focus on Long Beach,
Signal Hill and Terminal island and includes discovery/extraction of oil and
subsequent economic, political and social changes; building of community
institutions, including the university; Terminal Island Japanese fishing
village; work/lives of oil workers (labor collection) and Mexican workers on
Rancho Los Alamitos (Mexican American collection); and women community
builders (women?s history).

For more information on VOAHA, contact Project Directors,
Sherna Berger Gluck or Kaye Briegel
sbgluck@xxxxxxxxx, kbriegel@xxxxxxxxx



 *
Two series do not fit neatly into the four general categories: jazz
composers, arrangers and performers (4 narrators, 7 ½ hours, in Musical
Developments in Southern California Collection; and a set of interviews with
residents of Cambodia who recount their lives after the fall of the Khmer
Rouge to the first elections in 1993 (10 narrators, 18 hours, largely in the
Khmer language, in South East Asian Collection).


Sherna Berger Gluck
Kaye Briegel
California State University, Long Beach
Department of History
P: 562-985-5428
F: 562-985-5431
Email: kbriegel@xxxxxxxxx
Visit the website at http://www.csulb.edu/voaha

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