Krueger-Scott Oral History Collection
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- Resource class
- Collection
- Collection Title
- Krueger-Scott Oral History Collection
- Repository
- Center for Migration and the Global City, Rutgers University-Newark
- Newark Public Library
- Collection URL
- https://kruegerscott.libraries.rutgers.edu/
- Description
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Krueger-Scott is the largest collection of oral history interviews conducted with African American residents of Newark who came to the city during the Great Migration, as well as those whose local roots stretch back generations.
In the late 1990’s, the Krueger-Scott Cultural Center undertook an ambitious oral history project that conducted over 100 interviews with African American Newarkers who had migrated to the city between 1910-1970, as well as those whose local roots spanned generations. The project—led by KSCC Director Catherine Lenix-Hooker and project coordinator Mageline Little, with the assistance of historians Giles R. Wright II, Clement Alexander Price and the collective wisdom of volunteers from Bethany Baptist Church—generated a collection of narratives that offer a rich, nuanced understanding of Newark’s history.
Interviewees responded to a detailed 14-page questionnaire focusing on local life in Newark as well as on the migration experiences of those who undertook the journey and the lives they made for themselves upon arrival. Citizen volunteers were trained to interview their peers, resulting in narratives both data rich and conversational, allowing the listener an opportunity to eavesdrop on history by listening to those who made it.
The original audiocassette tapes for this collection are housed at the Newark Public Library. The recordings have been digitized and indexed through the efforts of the Rutgers University-Newark Center for Migration and the Global City, in partnership with the Graduate Program in American Studies, Dana and Alexander Libraries, Newark Public Library, Newark Museum, New Jersey Historical Society and Randforce Associates. - Principal Collection Place
- Newark, New Jersey
- Related Links
- Newest Americans: Stories About Krueger-Scott Oral Histories
- Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark, by Katie Singer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2024)
- Preferred Citation
- Krueger-Scott African American Oral History Project, Center for Migration and the Global City, Rutgers University-Newark
- Site pages
- Collections
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