Youth activist oral histories, 2010-2023

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  • Youth justice activists and organizers are often left out of political history archives. This is true despite the fact that youth movements repeatedly change the course of history. To contribute to rectifying this imbalance in archival sources, students in Duke professor Wesley Hogan's Fall 2023 FOCUS Program class, "Documenting Youth Justice Movements for Environmental and Racial Justice Since 2010," created an archive of their oral history interviews with youth activists in the Black Lives Matter, environmental justice, LGBTQ+, gender equity, and Indigenous rights movements. Each interview contains an MP3 or MP4 file, an interview transcript approved by the narrator, a brief introduction to the narrator, and an index of the interview. ... [Read More]

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138 files (54 GB)
Data Citation
  • Cassidy, R., Dignon, E., Dominic, E., Douglas, G., Goldson, N., Haskins, C., Hogan, W., Kirby, C., Koya, M., Kumar, S., Oliva, T., St. Lawrence., S., Thompson, M., Wang, E., & Yang, M. (2024). Youth activist oral histories, 2010-2023. Duke Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/r40p18j6q
DOI
  • 10.7924/r40p18j6q
Publication Date
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  • ark:/87924/r40p18j6q
Collection Dates
  • September 2023 to December 2023
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  • Individual narrators retain copyright over their own stories, but they have agreed to share them publicly under the Creative Commons license specified in the release form.
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  • Youth activist oral histories, 2010-2023