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Moore ORAL HISTORY REPORT Assignment Series

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Part One Historical Context Ideally, you will complete this bit of advanced research before your actual interview. Using a time-line from your America text or from another source, select 5 important events, societal changing inventions or cultural achievements which occurred within your subjects life time. Briefly describe the events in a chronological narrative to set the context of your interview. Use your interview as a window into these events OR use the events as possible talking points in your interview. Part Two- The interview- Select the questions from the Oral History Outline which will be appropriate for your interview subject. Conduct the interview as discussed in class. You may need to have more than one session. Part Three Using the information obtained in your Oral History Outline interview, you will write a narrative report detail as possible. (Oral historians actually record the interviews and then spend approximately six hours per hour of the interview transcribing the recordings). 1. Using the raw data from your interview, write a paragraph to answer each question you used. Include any questions you improvised, too. 2. Include quotations when possible. Here are some examples:

1. Record the name of the interviewer, the date, the time, and the place of the interview.
I, Mattie Townsend, interviewed Annie Belle Davis, on November 30, 2004, from 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM at her home in Madison County Florida. We made arrangements to continue the interview the next day, at the same time via the telephone.

2. Record the name, and the general description of the interview subject.
Mrs. Davis is a lively and personable eighty-eight year old woman with short, softly waved, snowy white hair. She has bright blue, almost turquoise, eyes, wears make-up, gold earrings and a necklace of small pearls. She wears a pastel beige and blue blouse over beige slacks. She was eager to talk and would chuckle at the thought that You would find this interestin. 3. When and where were you born? Mrs. Davis was born in Madison County, Florida, near the town of Lee on August 23, 1916. Her mother was Letha Mae Malone and her father was Joseph Burton Phillips. They were farmers as were almost everyone else they knew and they also ran a small country store

selling a few groceries, soaps, farm supplies, and later Coca-Cola and candies. a. Names of parents, parents occupations b. Siblings? 4. Mrs. Davis was the second born child. She has an older sister, Ethelle, a younger sister, Idoomer, and a sister who died at the age of six from diphtheria whose name was Ruby. She had one brother, Cleo, who was younger. Since her sister Ethelle helped her mother in the house, Mrs. Davis took the place of a son and helped her father with farm chores. She remembered, Daddy didnt have a boy, so I was the boy.

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