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Telling the history of the civil rights movement and the experiences of Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and other marginalized peoples in South Bend, Indiana from the Oral History Collection of the Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center.

Subjects or Themes

LGBTQ+, African American, Latinx, history, South Bend, Indiana, segregation, civil rights movement

Project Language(s)

English

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Project Categories

Content Type

Oral history audio

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center

Year(s)

2017

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center

Software Employed

  • Adobe Audition, Audacity, Logic Pro, Garage Band, Google docs, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

Labor and Support

Created by Kevin Tidmarsh, who served in a volunteer role. Hosted and Executive Produced by George Garner, Assistant Director and Curator of the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center. Episode producers include Mark Flora, Seth Umbaugh (volunteer), Joey Meyers, and Donald Brittain (paid). Each episode requires an estimated 8-10 hours of production time for planning, outlining, recording of intro and outro vocals, and audio engineering.

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