Hinds Community College - Utica Campus

Hinds Community College will launch the Utica Oral History Project to collect, preserve, and disseminate stories centered around the theme of southern black education in rural Mississippi. The college will establish an Oral History Center where community members can use equipment to collect their family stories, and mobile recording equipment will also be available for those unable to visit the campus. Faculty members will learn oral history best practices with a goal to incorporate their use in student coursework. The project team will lead workshops throughout the community, and work with families to catalog, digitize, and archive the recordings. Student interns will assist families in producing mini documentaries for use at family reunions and other special events. The project will result in oral history portfolios for 12 families consisting of the raw audio/video footage, transcripts, metadata, and family archival artifacts.