Program

Public Programs: Special Projects

Period of Performance

12/1/1979 - 11/30/1981

Funding Totals

$155,624.00 (approved)
$154,731.72 (awarded)


Developing Oral History Processes and Products: Black Perceptions on the Great Migration, 1915-1940

FAIN: GP-*1173-79

ASALH (Washington, DC 20001-1826)
J. Rupert Picott (Project Director: May 1979 to October 1990)

Supports a history of the migration of 2,000,000 black Americans from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1940.

To improve the use of oral history as a means of gathering basic historical information.