Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project
Content Description
Oral history interviews recorded by students in the Real World History class at Center for Inspired Teaching.
Dates
- Creation: 2014-
Creator
- Center for Inspired Teaching (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Biographical / Historical
The Center for Inspired Teaching's Real World History (RWH) is a city-wide high school history course that gives students applied history experience and exposes them to public history work through the cultural heritage institutions of the D.C. region. Each fall RWH students learn about the Great Migration through reading The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson, and embark on a semester-long oral history project with a Washingtonian who came to D.C. as part of the Migration. Together students and their narrators record life history interviews about the experience of migrating from the Jim Crow South to the D.C. Region.
Extent
27.1 Gigabytes (DIG_0029)
228 Files (DIG_0029)
Arrangement
Interviews are grouped by academic year.
Custodial History
The collection was donated to the Library in 2020 by The Center for Inspired Teaching.
Processing Information
The collection recieved minimal processing. Files were renamed to adhere to DCPL naming conventions.
- Title
- Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project
- Subtitle
- An inventory of Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project at DC Public Library
- Author
- Laura Farley
- Date
- 2020-12-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository