Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of the Multiracial Freedom Struggle in Texas

FAIN: RZ-230434-15

Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX 76129-0001)
Max Krochmal (Project Director: December 2014 to February 2022)
J. Todd Moye (Co Project Director: January 2015 to February 2022)
W. Marvin Dulaney (Co Project Director: January 2015 to February 2022)
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez (Co Project Director: April 2016 to February 2022)

The collection of 400 oral histories, the creation of a digital repository and website of videotaped interviews, and the writing and editing of a multi-authored book on civil rights movements in Texas. (36 months)

While most research on American race relations has utilized a binary analytical lens, examining either black vs. white or Anglo vs. Mexican, this project collects and interprets four hundred new oral history interviews with members of all three groups, simultaneously. Covering the period since the onset of the civil rights era, the interviews with African American, Mexican American, and white activists located in twelve sites throughout the large, diverse state of Texas will add new depth to the study of black/brown relations across the United States, past and present. The interviews will form the basis of a new, multi-authored book (with the look and feel of a scholarly monograph) that synthesizes and compares the black and brown freedom struggles in Texas from 1954 to the mid-1970s. Along the way, the project will also develop a free digital humanities website displaying video interview clips, each with its own metadata to allow for easy searching across the entire collection.

Media Coverage

Civil-rights history project gets $200,000 grant (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Diane Smith
Publication: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Date: 7/29/2015
URL: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article29173057.html

The human side of history (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Editorial Board
Publication: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Date: 7/30/2015
Abstract: Editorial endorsement of project
URL: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/editorials/article29469856.html

Two students conduct civil rights research in Corpus Christi (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Julie Garcia
Publication: Corpus Christi Caller Times
Date: 6/15/2016
URL: http://www.caller.com/news/local/two-students-conduct-civil-rights-research-in-corpus-christi-34edbdf9-75a4-1cff-e053-0100007f8b7b--383032941.html

Oral History Project Chronicles Civil Rights Struggle In Texas With People Who Lived It (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Justin Martin
Publication: KERA News
Date: 11/30/2016
URL: http://keranews.org/post/chronicling-texas-civil-rights-struggle-through-oral-histories

Civil Rights in Black and Brown (Media Coverage)
Author(s): National Humanities Alliance
Publication: NEH for ALL
Date: 1/1/2017
URL: https://nehforall.org/projects/civil-rights-in-black-and-brown

Associated Products

Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database (Web Resource)
Title: Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database
Author: Max Krochmal
Author: Jacob Brown
Abstract: The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database is a publicly accessible, free, and user-friendly multimedia digital humanities website that provides digital video clips from the interviews to researchers as well as teachers, journalists, and the general public. Rather than simply streaming full interviews or displaying transcripts, this site indexes short clips and embeds a number of thematic metadata codes and tags. End users are able to easily search for detailed subject information across the entire interview collection and add their own tags to help future users.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://crbb.tcu.edu

Civil Rights in Black and Brown: A First Look from the Field (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Civil Rights in Black and Brown: A First Look from the Field
Author: Max Krochmal
Author: Moises Acuna Gurrola
Author: Katherine Bynum
Author: Marvin Dulaney
Author: Sandra I. Enriquez
Author: David Robles
Abstract: Latinos, the Voting Rights Act, and Political Engagement Conference at UT-Austin
Date: 11/12/2015
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/3LSZPbvALtg
Conference Name: Latinos, the Voting Rights Act, and Political Engagement Conference

The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Project
Author: Max Krochmal
Author: Katherine Bynum
Author: Sandra Enriquez
Author: Todd Moye
Abstract: Roundtable presentation on the project to date
Date: 10/14/16
Primary URL: http://www.oralhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/OHA-2016-Program.pdf
Primary URL Description: conference program
Conference Name: Oral History Association

Documenting and Disseminating the Chicano/a Movement: Lessons from the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Documenting and Disseminating the Chicano/a Movement: Lessons from the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project
Author: Max Krochmal
Abstract: Keynote lecture at Fourth Bi-Annual Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement, Department of Chicano/a Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Date: 02/23/18
Primary URL: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018727/fight-educational-justice
Conference Name: Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement

The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project: Documenting and Analyzing Multiracial Freedom Struggles in Texas (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project: Documenting and Analyzing Multiracial Freedom Struggles in Texas
Author: Max Krochmal
Author: J. Todd Moye
Author: Moisés Acuña-Gurrola
Author: Sandra Enríquez
Author: Jasmin Howard
Abstract: While most research on American race relations has utilized a binary analytical lens—examining either “black” vs. “white” or “Anglo” vs. “Mexican”—CRBB collects, interprets, and disseminates new oral histories with members of all three groups.  CRBB is a multifaceted project: directed by three history professors and a journalism professor and assisted by dozens of community partners, it employs graduate students who conduct and video-record the oral histories. Interviews are clipped, tagged, and uploaded along with metadata to a website that is already being used by K–12 teachers. The project directors are analyzing interviews and writing a statewide history of black and brown civil rights organizing in Texas. The roundtable will discuss issues that have arisen in each of these facets of the project.
Date: 4/7/17
Primary URL: http://www.oah.org/site/assets/files/8218/2017_oah_am_program.pdf
Primary URL Description: Annual Meeting program, p. 58
Conference Name: Organization of American Historians

Civil Rights in Black and Brown: A Digital Humanities Collaboration (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Civil Rights in Black and Brown: A Digital Humanities Collaboration
Author: Max Krochmal
Author: Jacob Brown
Author: Mary Saffell
Abstract: TCU faculty, archivists, and librarians collaborated to create a portal to disseminate oral histories from African American, MexicanAmerican,and white activists about freedom movements in Texas. Learn how this digital humanities project was created and how this resource can benefit your library.
Date: 4/21/17
Primary URL: http://www.txla.org/sites/tla/files/TLJ/TLJ92-4.pdf
Primary URL Description: Conference program, p. 57
Conference Name: Texas Library Association

Connecting to Activists and the Public through the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project (Article)
Title: Connecting to Activists and the Public through the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project
Author: Max Krochmal
Abstract: Brief solicited LAWCHA Watch column on the CRBB Project
Year: 2016
Primary URL: https://www.dukeupress.edu/labor-and-empire
Primary URL Description: link to specific issue (Vol 13, no. 3/4)
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas
Publisher: Duke University Press

Public Lecture, “Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of Liberation in Texas” (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Public Lecture, “Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of Liberation in Texas”
Abstract: Willis Library Lecture Series
Author: Max Krochmal
Date: 11/29/2018
Location: University of North Texas

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