Chattanooga Women's Oral History Project interviews, 2017-2019
Scope and Contents
This collection contains interviews regarding the history of women in Chattanooga, Tennessee recorded from 2016 to 2019. The interviews document a wide breadth of local history ranging from race relations and education to women in the workforce and family life.
Dates
- Creation: 2017-2019
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The Chattanooga Women’s Oral History Project is a collaborative initiative coordinated by the City of Chattanooga Mayor's Council for Women History Subcommittee with technical support from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to document unique, diverse, and understudied aspects of local history by developing an open data set of linguistic material, sound recordings, and transcripts.
Extent
From the Collection: 242 Gigabytes
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga undergraduate students enrolled in the Department of History Internship course in partnership with the City of Chattanooga Mayor's Council for Women History Subcommittee conducted interviews with women in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each interviewer and interviewee donated their recordings, transcriptions, and/or summary information about the oral history to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2017 and 2018.
Processing Information
Support for processing this interviews series was funded, in part, by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Ruth S. Holmberg Grant for Faculty Excellence from 2017 July 1 to 2018 June 30.
Collection Area Details
Part of the Manuscripts Collection Area
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library
c/o Special Collections
600 Douglas Street
Chattanooga Tennessee 37403 United States
archives@utc.edu