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and David Lamelas digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/219365?…

Check out our interviews with artists Joey Terrill digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/219277?…

Happy Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month! We have many interviews about Latinx heritage in our collection, including a project specifically about Chicano/a Studies.

New OHC blog post reflects on the local impact of Freedom Summer. Over sixty years, Freedom Summer has shaped political freedoms on Berkeley’s campus. Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer by learning about how this landmark moment left its mark on Berkeley.

Happy Pride! Check out our Freedom to Marry oral history project, along with an article that our student editor, Katie Gonzales, wrote about the importance of the project. update.lib.berkeley.edu/2024/06/28/cel…

Check out Wilkerson's transcript for more: digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/218828?…

I felt very proud that we did that for a couple of years and then after we stopped doing it, the City of Richmond picked that up and began to have a city-wide Juneteenth celebration."

...and around the neighborhood and picked up the kids and brought them down, and taught them about Juneteenth, and did makeup on their faces and things like that, and then took them back home.

Happy Juneteenth! Here's Margaret Wilkerson, who taught at Cal in both the Dramatic Arts and African American Studies departments, talking about celebrating Juneteenth in her 2013 oral history interview:

"We did the first Juneteenth parade and celebration in Richmond. That was the date that the last set of slaves in Texas heard about emancipation...we actually had a little fair at the church, and we did a little parade up and down Shane Drive...

Join colleagues from around the world to hone your skills in #OralHistory! Sign up for our Advanced Institute: M–F, August 5–9, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m., via Zoom Apply early, as spots fill up quickly. #Twitterstorians #PublicHistory update.lib.berkeley.edu/2024/03/01/sig…

Activism. Memory. Identity. Artistic Expression. The experience of Japanese American incarceration during #WWII impacted generations. Our new podcast based on #OralHistory addresses this legacy. #AmericanHistory #History update.lib.berkeley.edu/2023/11/13/the…

Get to the next level of #OralHistory interviewing! Sign up for our Advanced Institute: M–F, August 5–9, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m., via Zoom We encourage you to apply early, as spots fill up quickly. Learn more and apply! update.lib.berkeley.edu/2024/03/01/sig…

This exhibit features several of our oral histories from our #DisabilityRights #OralHistory collection. Learn more: ucblib.link/OHC-Disability…

#EnvHist buffs: Listen to our podcast “Tides of Conservation” based on our #OralHistory museum exhibit about a century of Bay Area activism. This episode explores how 3 women from #Berkeley worked to save the San Francisco Bay from landfill. soundcloud.com/berkeleyohc/vo…

#UCBerkeley undergraduate and research apprentice Zachary Matsumoto explores the life, prestigious career & #OralHistory of @UofCalifornia associate president Patrick Hayashi. #History update.lib.berkeley.edu/2023/12/15/out…

This #BlackHistoryMonth see our #OralHistory interviews w/ African American artists including Howardena Pindell, David Driskell, Charles Gaines, Richard Mayhew & Senga Nengudi, conducted in partnership w/ @GettyTrust. Read about Nengudi’s interview here. getty.edu/news/inside-se…

In Feb 1942, more than 120,000 people were removed from their homes & put into prison camps because of their race & heritage. Emily Ehlen explores this legacy on child survivors & future generations through #Art. Based on our new #OralHistory project. lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/jai…