The South of U Collection Oral History Project gathers first-hand accounts of Washington D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood from individuals who lived there during and after the historic 1968 riots.

The collection consists of video interviews with ten people who discuss their experiences of the effects of the riots on the neighborhood and community and the culture of U Street and Shaw, both past and present. Individual experiences of living in Shaw range from Yvonne Baskerville, a student at segregated Dunbar High School who describes the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, to Ibrahim Mumin, who attended Howard in 1965 as a student activist and has stayed involved with Shaw’s community development over time.