Collections
Black Camden Oral History Project
- Collection Title
- Black Camden Oral History Project
- Repository
- Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Description
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The Black Camden Oral History Project aims to preserve the history of African American life and activism in Camden, New Jersey. This is a new project led by Kendra Boyd, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers–Camden, and Jesse Bayker, Digital Archivist at the Scarlet and Black Research Center. Several interviews have been added to Black Voices at Rutgers as a preview. Interviews conducted in 2022 in 2023 are currently being transcribed and will be added to the website in the coming months.
We are currently recruiting participants for oral history interviews, and we invite African American residents of Camden and alumni of Rutgers–Camden to contact us so we can record your story. Please visit the project website at blackcamden.org for more information. - Subject
- Rutgers University-Camden
Rutgers-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s Oral History Collection (R-MC 024)
- Collection Title
- Rutgers-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s Oral History Collection
- Identifier
- R-MC 024
- Repository
- Rutgers University Archives, a division of Special Collections and University Archives, located at Alexander Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Collection URL
- https://collections.libraries.rutgers.edu/newark-rutgers-1960-1970s
- https://archives.libraries.rutgers.edu/repositories/3/resources/603
- Description
- Rutgers University librarian Gil Cohen conducted 60 oral history interviews as part of a project to document the city of Newark and Rutgers University-Newark as they were in the 1960s and 1970s. This collection includes 11 interviews with Black students, faculty, and administrators who discuss their memories of the 1969 Conklin Hall takeover by the Black Organization of Students (BOS). The interviews were recorded in the early 1990s, and the collection is housed at Special Collections and University Archives in New Brunswick. The audio recordings and transcripts for this collection have been fully digitized by Rutgers University Libraries.
- Related Links
- Special Collections and University Archives
- Preferred Citation
- The Rutgers-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s Oral History Collection (RMC-024), Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA)
- Collection Title
- Rutgers Oral History Archives
- Repository
- Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Collection URL
- https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
- Description
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Based at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, the Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) has recorded numerous interviews with Black participants, primarily Rutgers alumni and faculty. The collection also includes several interviews with Black New Jerseyans who are not affiliated with Rutgers University. Many of the interviews highlight the military experiences of Black veterans. ROHA interviews usually trace the full course of the person’s life, detailing their family history and experiences beginning with childhood memories.
Established in 1994, ROHA grew out of a project that originally focused on World War II memories. Since then, ROHA has expanded to include life-course interviews on many themes related to Rutgers and New Jersey social and cultural history. ROHA frequently partners with Rutgers faculty to conduct and preserve oral history projects around specific research topics, such as urban redevelopment in New Brunswick and Black activism in Camden. ROHA's digital collection includes over 1,275 oral history interviews with full-text searchable transcripts; the audio recordings are not published. Select video interviews recorded as part of the City of New Brunswick Redevelopment Oral Histories Project have been published digitally.
From ROHA’s establishment in 1994 until 2014, it appears that only approximately 1% of the interviewees were African American. A greater effort to record interviews with Black participants resulted from the 2015 Black on the Banks conference that brought together African American alumni of the 1960s generation. In five years since the conference, ROHA doubled the number of Black voices in the collection. The effort to record interviews with African American alumni, faculty, and staff is ongoing.
Scarlet and Black Interviews
- Collection Title
- Scarlet and Black Interviews
- Repository
- Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Description
- Dr. Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and the founding director of the Scarlet and Black research project, has conducted several interviews with a focus on African American history and athletics at Rutgers University. These interviews have been integrated into the Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) digital collection.
- Subject
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- Related Links
- Scarlet and Black Research Center
Women, Education and Leadership at Rutgers
- Collection Title
- Women, Education and Leadership at Rutgers
- Repository
- Margery Somers Foster Center at Douglass Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Description
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Thirteen individuals were interviewed by filmmaker June Cross for the documentary From the Boarding House to the Boardroom: 250 Years of Women at Rutgers, which was produced by the Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium, in celebration of Rutgers 250th Anniversary in 2016. The interviews capture the history and evolution of Douglass Residential College over the past several decades. The Margery Somers Foster Center has made the the full transcript and video recording of each interview available as part of the Women, Education and Leadership collection at the Rutgers University Libraries Digital Collections portal.
This collection includes interviews with two Black faculty members: Cheryl Wall and Abena Busia.
Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- Collection Title
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- Repository
- Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Collection URL
- https://iwl.rutgers.edu/interviews/
- Description
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This interview collection is comprised of written transcripts of interviews that IWL Leadership Scholars have conducted with women leaders. These transcripts are resources for researchers in the field of women’s leadership, for students interested in challenges and successes women face in leadership, and for practitioners and policymakers working on women’s issues. Broad areas the interviews cover include work and family issues; definitions of leadership; the ways that race, class, and gender influence access to, and exercise of, leadership; and generational issues in leadership. Since the inception of the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program in the fall of 1999, students have conducted annual interviews with outstanding women leaders.
Select transcripts from the collection are accessible on the IWL website; the audio recordings are not published. - Subject
- Women's Leadership
Transforming Lives Documentary Films
- Collection Title
- Transforming Lives Documentary Films
- Repository
- Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Description
- The IWL Transforming Lives Documentary Series contains student-produced short films on women leading change in a variety of contexts. This project at the Institute for Women's Leadership combines filmmaking and interview skills to help undergraduates learn from women leaders who are making a difference in the world and to gain an understanding of the use of media as a vital tool for creating social change in the 21st century.
- Subject
- Women's Leadership
- Related Links
- Rutgers Institute for Women's Leadership
History of Medicine Oral History Transcripts
- Collection Title
- History of Medicine Oral History Transcripts
- Repository
- Special Collections in the History of Medicine, George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Newark Campus
- Collection URL
- https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/health-sciences/visit-study/special-collections-history-medicine/oral-history-transcripts
- Description
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Rutgers University's George F. Smith Library of the Health Sciences in Newark maintains a collection of oral history transcripts. The transcripts are part of the library's Special Collections in the History of Medicine. The oral history collection consists of about 40 interviews with medical professionals who worked and lived in New Jersey. The interviews were conducted in the 1980s and 1990s.
We have identified one Black interviewee in this collection: the prominent obstetrician/gynecologist Lena Edwards.
A list of interviews is available on the library's website, but the audio and transcripts have not been published online. In order to obtain a transcript from the collection, researchers must contact Special Collections in the History of Medicine via the contact form on the library's website.