Hidden Sagas Collection

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“Hidden Sagas: Stories of Florida’s African American Experience” Oral History Project had its roots as a response to the Florida Humanities Council’s 30th Anniversary celebration in 2003, and three year initiative entitled “Telling Florida’s Stories: Strengthening Florida Communities.” The specific goal of this project was to collect the reminisces of black Floridians who had lived through the Jim Crow Era and witnessed the changes wrought by the Civil Rights Revolution. The driving force behind “Hidden Sagas” was to revamp the history of America’s rural communities that is often overshadowed by the vast amounts of evidence of urban centers. The roots of the African American experience begin with the land, may it be a plantation of the antebellum period or tenant farmer. It was these places that Black culture, religion, and folk life took its form. It is only natural to return to those places to seek the history of African American people.

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Hidden Sagas Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee Community College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.

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Interview with Lucille Day, February 27, 2004

Transcript of interview with Lucille Day on her upbringing in Greenville, Florida before and after integration. The interview focuses on education, her career as a teacher with a particular focus on desegregation, church education, school condition for Black students before Integration, Black medicine, local struggles with Segregation, her time at FAMU, and her current life in Greenville.
Interview with Sam & Lola McGhee, January 11, 2003

Transcript of interview with Sam and Lola McGhee on their life in Madison, Florida before and after integration. The interview includes discussion of sharecropping, Black employment of white families before Integration, race relations, medicine in Black communities, farm production, land ownership, Black business, school board elections, and May 20th celebrations in Madison.
Interview with Delores Jones, December 15, 2003

Transcript of interview with Delores Jones on her upbringing in Madison, Florida, before and after integration. The interview focuses on Madison's connection to Jacksonville, education, Black and white relations during the Great Depression, the 4-H Club, housing, and the state of modern education.
Interview with Marie Bell Alexander, December 15, 2003

Transcript of interview with Marie Bell Alexander on her life growing up in Madison, Florida, before and after integration. The interview focuses on farm life upbringing, Black land ownership, sharecropping, Integration, healthcare, recreation in the community, modern child rearing and education, and modern Madison.
Interview with Julia Turner, November 13, 2003

Transcript of interview with Julia Turner on growing up and living in Greenville before integration and after. The interview focuses on farm life, railroad work, domestic living in Black communities, race relations, sharecropping, Black education, and specific events in Greenville, Florida history.
Interview with Ernest Washington, December 15, 2003

Transcript of interview with Ernest Washington on growing up in Madison and Greenville, Florida before Integration. The interview focuses on rural life, Black family life, child rearing and how children entertained themselves, food and cooking, and race relations. Later portions of the interview focus on Washington's career in education, as an administrator, race and racism, land ownership, and modern reflections on education.
Interview with Walter Mae Philmore, July 19, 2003

Transcript of interview with Walter Mae Philmore on growing up in Live Oak, Florida before and after integration. The interview focuses on Black employment in Live Oak before Integration, education, Black community life, child-rearing, police violence, and race relations. The later portion of the interview sees her son "Junior" join in and share stories about Integration in Live Oak schools.
Interview with Louise Hicks Hall, July 11, 2003

Transcript interview with Louise Hicks Hall on growing up in Live Oak, Florida in the early 1900s, reflecting on her life in the community up to the turn of the century. The interview focuses on education, her teaching career, race relations, integration & segregation, Black Churches, and key figures in the community including Bethune-Cookman, Ruby McCollum, Willie James Howard, and others.
African American Oral Histories Tell the Stories of North Florida
Draft, Hidden Sagas: Stories of Florida's African American Experience

Drafts of transcripts of interviews that were conducted from February 2003 to February 2004 where Black participants were asked about their experiences during Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Revolution. Participants interviewed spoke of their troubles during each period while also speaking of their daily lives and normalities.