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• ENGAGE a Myriad of Audiences, Old and Young Alike
• EDUCATE the Larger Community
• INCREASE Knowledge and Understanding
• IMPACT and ACTIVATE Social Change
• ENHANCE the Cultural Equity of the African American Community

What Is The HistoryMakers?

CAPACITY BUILDING

Public Humanities, Digital Humanities & Oral History

Roberto Busa Allan Nevins

Digital Humanities Public Humanities & Oral History

• Necessary. Important. Urgent.

The only large-scale attempt to document the black experience since the WPA Slave Narratives.

Before The HistoryMakers, important history was hidden from view.

Carla Hayden

Goals & Accomplishments

CREATE an archival collection of 5,000 African American video oral histories. EXPOSE the collection to the widest audience possible using new media outlets, public events, educational programs and a unique digital archive. PRESERVE this collection for generations to come to construct a more inclusive and accurate record of American history. DONATE this collection to a nationally recognized archive due to long term preservation costs.

A HistoryMaker is an African American by descent who:

1) has made significant accomplishments in his or her own life; and/or 2) is associated with a particular movement, organization or association and event or time that is important to the African American community.

The HistoryMakers’ stories are ones of success against the odds, achievement in the face of adversity, and in all cases, stories of inspiration. They are America’s Missing Stories.

What Is A HistoryMaker?

Time is constantly moving forward, and we are losing important history and stories

every day.

Charles Ogletree Civil rights lawyer, Harvard Law School professor Gwen Ifill (1955-2016) Managing editor, Washington Week & PBS NewsHour Lani Guinier First African American female tenured Harvard Law School professor

• Necessary. Important. Urgent.

Lerone Bennett (1928-2018) Executive editor of Ebony magazine for forty+ years

Foodways Black Towns & Land Ownership Integration & Public Life Sciences Makings

• f Modern

Music Public Health & Medical Workers Poetry Theology & Religious Life Black Feminism Migration & the Black Diaspora African Survivals Shifts in Beauty Culture Black Radical Tradition Entrepreneurs Funeral Rites Film & Filmmakers LGBTQ Sports Black Arts Movement

Rich & Diverse Content

Missing Links – Age & Gender

HistoryMakers Age Distribution

30-40 11 41-50 88 51-60 326 61-70 712 71-80 818 81-90 425 91-100 100 100+ 5 Deceased 614

1954 1145

500 1000 1500 2000 2500

Men Women

HistoryMakers by Gender

By The Numbers…

Interviews per Year

9 63 83 240 311 275 288 198 355 170 8 101 40 225 251 214 19 126 222 127

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

51 | The earliest recollection in the Collection | Cities and towns where interviews have been conducted | Age of the youngest HistoryMaker at the time of her interview | Full-length video interviews in The HistoryMakers Collection | Age of the oldest HistoryMaker at the time of her interview | Stories currently available on The HistoryMakers Digital Archive | Hours of primary source material | Countries using The HistoryMakers Digital Archive 1700s 413 28 3,000 109 140,000+ 10,000

Missing Links – Subject Category

53 82 86 109 129 142 218 242 269 284 296 418 480 503 640

200 400 600 800 StyleMakers SportsMakers MilitaryMakers EntertainmentMakers ReligionMakers MedicalMakers ScienceMakers MusicMakers PoliticalMakers LawMakers ArtMakers MediaMakers BusinessMakers CivicMakers EducationMakers

Interviews per Category

John H. Johnson BUSINESSMAKER Eartha Kitt ENTERTAINMENTMAKER Louis Sullivan MEDICALMAKER President Barack Obama POLITICALMAKER Oscar Robertson SPORTSMAKER Maya Angelou ARTMAKER Lonnie Bunch EDUCATIONMAKER Charles Blow MEDIAMAKER Quincy Jones MUSICMAKER Katherine Johnson SCIENCEMAKER Harry Belafonte CIVICMAKER Sherrilyn Ifill LAWMAKER

• Gen. Colin Powell

MILITARYMAKER

• Rev. Calvin O. Butts

RELIGIONMAKER Daymond John STYLEMAKER

15 Subject Categories

Missing Links - Geography

By 2020, all 50 states will be blue!

AK(11) MT(0) WY(0) ID(0) WA(23) OR(1) NV(30) UT(15) CA(281) AZ(14) ND(1) SD(1) NE(7) CO(34) NM(3) TX(111) OK(0) KS(8) AR(16) LA(31) MO(18) IA(1) MN(9) WI(27) IL(588) IN(24) KY(9) TN(49) MS(13) AL(36) GA (262) FL(93) SC(23) NC(53) VA(93) WV(1) OH(94) MI(77) NY (402) PA(64) DC (431) DE(6) NJ(51) CT(17) RI(4) MA(123) ME(0) VT(0) NH(0) HI(2) MD (46)

If it is not on the internet, it does not exist.

Forever Relevant

“We received a reference question about the correct pronunciation of two old department stores in Harlem for an audio book recording. The Assistant Chief Librarian in my division used HistoryMakers to get the answer. Amazing! It's the only resource that could have answered the question.”

• Maira Liriano, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

It means that our generation will never be lost, that the history of our generation will never be lost…I’m honored to be part of the archive.

• Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Harvard University

Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Georgia Iowa Kentucky Massachusetts Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri New Jersey New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Utah Virginia Washington, D.C. Wisconsin Illinois

Institutional Subscribers

Oregon Maryland

Arkansas Arkansas State University University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff California Stanford University Colorado United States Air Force Academy Connecticut Yale University Georgia Emory University Savannah State University Illinois Dominican University Northwestern University University of Chicago University of Illinois, Chicago Iowa University of Iowa Kentucky Eastern Kentucky University Massachusetts Boston University Brandeis University Harvard University Lesley University Northeastern University Simmons College Smith College University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, Boston Michigan Michigan State University Minnesota Carleton College Missouri Southeast Missouri State University Washington University in St. Louis New Jersey Princeton University Rutgers University New York Columbia University Cornell University New York University North Carolina Duke University Johnson C. Smith University Ohio Case Western Reserve University Ohio State University Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon University University of Pennsylvania Texas Texas Southern University Virginia The College of William and Mary University of Richmond University of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Washington, D.C. American University Howard University Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Public Libraries Chicago Public Library Cleveland Public Library Forsyth County Public Library Milwaukee Public Library Salt Lake County Library Schomburg Center (NYPL) Private School Latin School of Chicago

Colleges & Universities

Institutional Subscribers

Oregon University of Oregon Maryland Morgan State University

Teaching Vocabulary in Context

• Course made up of 10-12th grade African American

male students, focused on closing the achievement gap

• Used President Obama’s road to the White House as

a framework to explore concepts like:

• African American Identity
• Politics
• Agenda
• Political Machine

Evonda Haith Social Studies Elbert Hawkins Counselor

(High Point, NC)

K-12 Instruction

Remote Access for All Cardholders & Chicago History Fair

• All cardholders receive remote access to The HistoryMakers

Digital Archive

• Four 7th grade students of Whitney M. Young's Academic Center

used information and excerpted transcripts from the Digital Archive

• Placed 6th overall nationwide for their exhibit

“Redlined,” exploring redlining and the Contract Buyers League

Student Winners

Public Libraries

Soul, Funk, and Civil Rights

• Look at the lives, music, and oral histories of music greats like Berry Gordy,

Martha Reeves and Valerie Simpson

• Objectives:
• Discuss evolution of gender roles in black community and its effects on

music and artistic production

• Examine the politics of black popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s
• Explore the enduring legacy of important events of this time period on

racial consciousness development and cultural creativity

Janie Ward Simmons College

Colleges & Universities

Classical Theater and the Modern City

Patrice Rankine University of Richmond

“Having access to HistoryMakers enhances how I can deliver instruction in drama and performance, while also teaching my students about research and library resources.”

First-year seminar course where students:

• Read both classical plays from Greece and Rome as well as modern theater classics;
• Explore the distinctions between text and stage, thinking about issues of race, class, and

gender as experienced by characters in the time they were living in. Students will watch interviews of HistoryMakers like:

• Lloyd Richards – director of the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun
• Billie Allen – actress who appeared in A Raisin in the Sun and the original production
• f Blues for Mister Charlie

Colleges & Universities

Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality

• The HistoryMakers provides a rich, detailed account of the

meaning of Wyatt’s life from her perspective

• Filled gaps in Wyatt’s biography and supported existing

knowledge

• Childhood in Mississippi & Chicago
• Aftermath of her mother’s death
• Activist networks
• Rev. Addie Wyatt

(1924-2012) Interviewed in 2002

Marcia Walker-McWilliams Rice University

Book Publishing