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Courtesy of the Chattanooga Public Library and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Special Collections. Click the image for more photos and newspaper clippings from the Chattanooga sit-ins pictured above.<\/p><\/div>\n

Shalonda Barnes admits she was intimidated.<\/p>\n

\n

The Interviews<\/h3>\n

There are currently 83 interviews transcribed and archived online through UTC\u2019s Digital Collections under Chattanooga Women\u2019s Oral Histories<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among those is Ernestine Hall<\/a>, one of the Howard High School seniors who sat at lunch counters in local five-and-dime stores in February 1960, joining the civil rights sit-ins that were quickly gaining popularity throughout the Southeast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were tired of things the way they were. We knew our parents would not do it because they would have repercussions,\u201d Hall says in the interview.<\/p>\n

An interview with Gloria Griffith<\/a>, whose August 1968 wedding was perhaps the first celebration of an interracial marriage in Chattanooga, describes the preparation for the couple\u2019s wedding day, their romance leading up to it and their honeymoon.<\/p>\n

She recalls traveling with her husband and meeting a man from Vermont who had never met a black person before. He was utterly convinced that she would have a tail or, if he touched her arm, something like paint would rub off onto his fingers, she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said he’d been told a lot of different stuff about black people, but these things weren’t true, and I says, \u2018Y’all must discuss us quite a bit.\u2019 He says, \u2018There are some discussions.\u2019 He says, \u2018But I, for myself,\u2019 he says, \u2018I can go back and honestly tell them that things that we have been told are lies,\u2019\u201d Griffith recalls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Walking into an office to conduct an interview with Dr. Autumn Graves, head of Girls Preparatory School, was out of Barnes\u2019 comfort zone and approaching research in a whole new way. There weren’t library books or a computer screen to hide behind; Barnes was face-to-face with her subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of scary at first,\u201d said Barnes, a junior in political science at UTC.<\/p>\n

She had spent weeks researching and planning the interview, an assignment in her history class to interview local black women who are movers and shakers in Chattanooga history.<\/p>\n

So, list of interview questions in hand, she met with Graves.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially when I did it I was like, \u2018OK, maybe I don\u2019t want to steer away from these questions. Maybe I just want to stay right here, just ask these questions and get it over with,\u2019\u201d Barnes explained.<\/p>\n

The experience, Barnes said, gave her a new perspective on research, an approach not familiar to a lot of students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just know to go to the internet, cite it and that\u2019s it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

New Viewpoints<\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>In her course, African American Women, Assistant Professor of History Susan Eckelmann Berghel<\/a> has students engage with history beyond the textbooks, getting personal with local \u00a0history makers and recording their stories and perspectives. The end result is the Voices of African American Women Oral History project.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an educator, I always think of ways to involve students in the community, to think about how they can apply history specific skill sets,\u201d Berghel explained.<\/p>\n

The project partners with the Mayor\u2019s Council for Women<\/a>\u2019s History subcommittee, a group that is recovering, archiving and publishing the experiences of local women leaders, advocates, educators and community builders. Not just telling \u201chistory,\u201d as the subcommittee\u2019s website says, but telling \u201cher<\/em>stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

To gather these stories, UTC, along with Covenant College and Southern Adventist University, is supplying a pipeline of oral history collectors: students.<\/p>\n

Berghel was already teaching courses on African American history, women\u2019s history and post-1945 history when the chance to work on the oral history project came along. It was a natural fit that takes students beyond what they read in their textbook and shows them how worldwide history connects with their own backyards.<\/p>\n

In a grant proposal to raise money for the oral history project, Carolyn Runyon<\/a>, assistant head of collection services and director of special collections for UTC\u2019s Library, wrote: \u201cThese interviews provide the opportunity to connect historical issues to present day challenges, understand the complex junctures of oppression over time, and highlight an understudied group\u2019s unique approach to leadership, activism, and community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Digging deeper<\/h3>\n

Nicholas Cooper saw Marva McGee<\/a>, an administrative assistant in Social, Cultural and Justice Studies<\/a>,<\/u> in UTC\u2019s Brock Hall almost daily. A senior secondary education history major, he jumped at the chance to interview her for the oral history project, to talk to her beyond the surface-level interactions. Even though she had been a friendly face and helped him out with logistics of registering for classes, she was a stranger to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see someone every day, but you don\u2019t know anything about them. Now I know that woman\u2019s entire life, which is really cool,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n

In the interview, he developed a skill that is valuable in many professions, but is especially useful for historians, whose work focuses mainly on written texts, \u201cbut not a lot on oral history because, in today\u2019s age, it\u2019s just now becoming more and more accessible. So I think it\u2019s really rare that we\u2019ve gotten to do that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A collaboration of UTC\u2019s Special Collections and Department of History, with the City of Chattanooga Mayor\u2019s Council on Women, Southern Adventist University and Covenant College, captures the testimonies of local women to diversify the historical narrative of Chattanooga and add their unique perspectives.<\/p>\n

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