What Is The HistoryMakers ? CAPACITY BUILDING ENGAGE a Myriad of - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

What Is The HistoryMakers ? CAPACITY BUILDING • 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 o f the African American Community

Public Humanities, Digital Humanities & Oral History Public Humanities & Oral History Roberto Busa Digital Humanities Allan Nevins

Necessary. Important . Urgent. Before The HistoryMakers , important history was hidden from view. Carla Hayden The only large-scale attempt to document the black experience since the WPA Slave Narratives.

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.

What Is A HistoryMaker ? 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 .

Necessary. Important . Urgent. Time is constantly moving forward, and we are losing important history and stories every day . Gwen Ifill Charles Ogletree (1955-2016) Civil rights lawyer, Harvard Managing editor, Washington Law School professor Week & PBS NewsHour Lerone Bennett Lani Guinier (1928-2018) First African American female tenured Executive editor of Ebony Harvard Law School professor magazine for forty+ years

Rich & Diverse Content Public Makings Film & Black Arts Funeral Health & Foodways of Modern Filmmakers Movement Rites Medical Music Workers Black Poetry Radical Entrepreneurs Sports LGBTQ Tradition Migration Black Towns Shifts in Theology & Black & the Black Sciences & Land Beauty Religious Feminism Diaspora Ownership Culture Life Integration African & Public Survivals Life

Missing Links – Age & Gender HistoryMakers by Gender HistoryMakers Age Distribution 2500 11 30-40 41-50 88 1954 2000 51-60 326 61-70 712 1500 818 71-80 1145 1000 81-90 425 91-100 100 500 100+ 5 Deceased 614 0 Men Women

By The Numbers… Interviews per Year 2018 127 | The earliest recollection in the Collection 2017 1700s 222 2016 126 2015 19 | Cities and towns where interviews have been conducted 413 2014 214 2013 251 | Age of the youngest HistoryMaker at the time of her interview 28 2012 225 2011 40 | Full-length video interviews in The HistoryMakers Collection 3,000 2010 101 2009 8 | Age of the oldest HistoryMaker at the time of her interview 109 2008 170 2007 355 2006 140,000+ | Stories currently available on The HistoryMakers Digital Archive 198 2005 288 2004 275 | Hours of primary source material 10,000 2003 311 2002 240 | Countries using The HistoryMakers Digital Archive 51 2001 83 2000 63 1999 9 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Missing Links – Subject Category Interviews per Category 15 Subject Categories EducationMakers 640 CivicMakers 503 BusinessMakers 480 MediaMakers 418 ArtMakers 296 Maya Angelou Lonnie Bunch Charles Blow Quincy Jones Katherine Johnson ARTMAKER EDUCATIONMAKER MEDIAMAKER MUSICMAKER SCIENCEMAKER LawMakers 284 PoliticalMakers 269 MusicMakers 242 ScienceMakers 218 John H. Johnson Eartha Kitt Louis Sullivan President Barack Obama Oscar Robertson MedicalMakers 142 BUSINESSMAKER ENTERTAINMENTMAKER MEDICALMAKER POLITICALMAKER SPORTSMAKER ReligionMakers 129 EntertainmentMakers 109 MilitaryMakers 86 SportsMakers 82 Harry Belafonte Sherrilyn Ifill Gen. Colin Powell Rev. Calvin O. Butts Daymond John StyleMakers 53 CIVICMAKER LAWMAKER MILITARYMAKER RELIGIONMAKER STYLEMAKER 0 200 400 600 800

Missing Links - Geography WA(23) ME(0) VT(0) MT(0) ND(1) MN(9) NH(0) OR(1) By 2020, all MA(123) WI(27) ID(0) SD(1) NY (402) MI(77) 50 states will CT(17) WY(0) RI(4) PA(64) IA(1) be blue! NJ(51) NE(7) OH(94) NV(30) IL(588) DE(6) UT(15) IN(24) WV(1) DC (431) CO(34) VA(93) CA(281) KS(8) MO(18) KY(9) MD (46) NC(53) TN(49) OK(0) AZ(14) SC(23) AR(16) NM(3) GA (262) MS(13) AL(36) TX(111) LA(31) FL(93) AK(11) HI(2 )

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

Institutional Subscribers Arkansas California Georgia Illinois Colorado Connecticut Maryland Iowa Michigan Kentucky Massachusetts Ohio Minnesota Missouri New York North Carolina New Jersey Wisconsin Utah Virginia Washington, D.C. Oregon Texas Pennsylvania

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

K-12 Instruction Teaching Vocabulary in Context Course made up of 10-12 th 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 (High Point, NC) • Political Machine Elbert Hawkins Evonda Haith Counselor Social Studies

Public Libraries Remote Access for All Cardholders & Chicago History Fair • All cardholders receive remote access to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive Four 7 th grade students of Whitney M. Young's Academic Center • used information and excerpted transcripts from the Digital Archive Placed 6 th overall nationwide for their exhibit • “Redlined,” exploring redlining and the Contract Buyers League Student Winners

Colleges & Universities 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 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. Patrice Rankine Students will watch interviews of HistoryMakers like: University of Richmond • 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 of Blues for Mister Charlie “Having access to HistoryMakers enhances how I can deliver instruction in drama and performance, while also teaching my students about research and library resources.”