Interviews
By Name
On this page you can browse interviews collected by the name of the inteviewee.
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About the Interviews
In Fall 2020, this public history, digital humanities project was launched by the history course HIS196H, COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: Comparative, Crisis-based Oral History in the American Experience as a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). The course explored the impact of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement in the context of twentieth Century American History by comparatively studying the intersectionality between disease and struggles for social justice. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 and the Race Riots of 1919-1920; the early 1950s polio epidemic and the 1950s-1960s Civil Rights Movement; and the 1980s HIV-AIDS pandemic and the Gay Rights Movement were studied and substantively linked to COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Interviews
By Name
2020
Luckie Alexander
“So…so 2020. So let me backup. My name is Luckie Alexander and I’m from Los Angeles, California. And Covid was interesting because it was kind of like . . . .”
2020
Vincent Birkenmeyer
“Yea um so the night that DJ was killed was homecoming night, so um some of my friends were in town where DJ was, some of my friends were on campus . . . “
2020
Kendil Banks
“Um, when I we- when I moved to, um, New York, for college. So… I met a lot of friends that ar- are from there. Alo- I met a lot of people that are . . . “
2020
Kristen DeSousa
“I thought it was great. Still do. Uh I think it’s super important. I think, um, it’s very obvious to me that there is an implicit ‘too’, at the end of the sentence . . . “