mnsss346 Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1985 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-04-07 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1985 Finding Aid MS 414 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Black Women Oral History Project1976-1985 MS 414 2 boxes (2 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Tanscripts of oral history interviews of fifty-nine African American women who had made significant contibutions through professional or voluntary work. The interviews were conducted from 1976 to 1985 for the Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.) Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Black Women Oral History Project consists of transcripts of oral history interviews of fifty-nine African American women who had made significant contibutions through professional or voluntary work and were born within approximately 15 years before and after the turn of the 20th century. The interviews were conducted from 1976 to 1985 for the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women (Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.)

The published guide to the transcripts (edited by Ruth Edmonds Hill and Patricia Miller King), available in the Sophia Smith Collection, gives a summary of each woman's life and highlights topics covered in the interviews; it also contains an index. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information.

Partially restricted access - contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information.

Copyright to unpublished materials may be owned by the creator, or their heirs or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women (Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University) as owners of the original oral histories.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Black Women Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Original transcripts and recordings of interviews are held by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Search Terms African American women--Biography--Sources African American women--Interviews King, Patricia Miller Hill, Ruth Edmonds Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women