Collecting Detroiters’ Stories of Courage, Struggle, Loss, and Resilience: An Oral History Project

FAIN: PN-293450-23

Detroit Historical Society (Detroit, MI 48202-4009)
Tracy Irwin (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

The gathering of 100 oral histories documenting the impact of COVID-19 and climate change within Detroit communities. 

The Detroit Historical Society (DHS) seeks to expand its growing oral history collection by capturing stories from Detroit residents and others, with a particular effort on reaching underserved populations in the region. Entitled Collecting Detroiters’ Stories of Courage, Struggle, Loss and Resili-ence: An Oral History Project, DHS will collect new stories from those that have experienced the impacts of the pandemic for its ongoing Detroit Responds: Stories from the Time of Covid-19 collection, and will create a new project area called The Neighborhoods: Where Climate Change Matters that focuses on the effects of extreme weather events on individuals living in Detroit.