Roz Wyman was the youngest person and second woman ever to be elected to the Los Angeles City Council. While on the City Council she also became an instrumental figure in bringing the Dodgers to Los Angeles. In 2019 she was interviewed for our Women, Politics, and Activism Oral History Project. In her interview Wyman reflects on her expansive career, discussing her work within the Democratic Party and noting the emotions she felt witnessing historic moments for women in politics. We are truly grateful for the opportunity to record Roz Wyman’s oral history and invite you to listen as she reflects on her life and political career. Interviewed by Dr. Natalie Fousekis in January of 2019, for the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University Fullerton.

In Memoriam: An Oral History with Roz Wyman

In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month and recent legislation, our fourth episode focuses on the history of LGBTQ life and activism in North Carolina. First, former SOHP field scholar Evan Faulkenberry and former SOHP intern Aaron Hayworth discuss their recently published article in the Oral History Review. We also hear excerpts from an interview with Professor Randall Kenan, whose oral history highlighted in Evan and Aaron’s paper illuminates the intersecting identities of race and sexual orientation.

Next, field scholar Carol Prince talks about what she learned conducting oral histories with Erin Karcher and Genia Smith, two small business owners in Durham whose experiences of sexuality and gender complicate dominant understandings of entrepreneurship.

Finally, we share three clips from the SOHP archive that underscore the different contours of LGBTQ identity in the South. In an interview from 2007, Mandy Carter, a black lesbian social justice activist, discusses the motivations behind founding Southerners on New Ground. Then in an interview from 2014, Dr. Terri Phoenix, director of the LGBTQ Center at UNC Chapel Hill discusses the ongoing fight for gender neutral bathrooms. Finally, Ping Nguyen, a graduate of UNC reflects on the differences (or lack thereof) between queer life in the North and the South. 

In closing, former SOHP intern and new Press Record co-host Charlotte Eure and field scholar Carol Prince discuss the tensions that surface while doing queer oral history for academic purposes.


Episode 4: LGBTQ Oral Histories of North Carolina

Our final episode for this summer at the Southern Oral History Program explores the complex world of emotions and oral history. How can we better understand the emotions that surface during life history interviews? What are some ways we can learn to listen for less obvious emotional cues? Why is vulnerability such an important part of doing oral history?

Episode 6 tackles these questions and more in three segments. First, Charlotte Eure talks to Taylor Livingston about listening for emotion that sometimes gets lost in transcription. Next, Carol Prince conducts Press Record’s first phone interview with Professor Natalie Fousekis, director of the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University at Fullerton, who discusses the role of of emotion in her research. Finally, Professor Rachel Seidman recounts an intense moment in her interviewing career and offers some tips for students new to navigating emotion and oral history.
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Episode 6: Emotion and Vulnerability in Oral History Interviews

A short preview of our upcoming podcast: From the Outside in: Women in Politics, launching October 2, 2016

Music by Lee Rosevere.

"And So Then"

From the Outside In: Women in Politics (trailer)

In response to the recent upsurge of activism and protests in Charlotte, Press Record is releasing a special episode of archival interviews. The following episode features a collection of interviews from our archives on school desegregation and economic justice in Charlotte, North Carolina. Hopefully these excerpts offer some additional historical context and serve as tools to talk about the history of economic and political disfranchisement that informs today’s activism in Charlotte.

Episode 8: Understanding Segregation and Economic Injustice in Charlotte, NC

In Episode 14 of Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia reflect on Malcolm X's enduring influence on the borough of Brooklyn.

Index

03:02 - Histories and Ideas
15:54 - Into the Archives
34:08 - Voices of Brooklyn

For complete show notes, go to www.brooklynhistory.org/flatbush-main.

Flatbush + Main Ep 14: Malcolm X in Brooklyn (May 19, 2017)

The Center for Oral and Public History at California State University, Fullerton presents Outspoken: A COPH Podcast.  Outspoken incorporates current projects, oral histories, and archival material into monthly conversations. Join us!

In Memoriam: An Oral History with Roz Wyman

Center for Oral and Public History

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