University of virginia. It was done with the codirectorship of now the late jeweli i julian bond and myself. Its a project that brought prominent africanamerican leaders to the university in order to talk about their own personal life histories and also to talk about leadership in general. When did you start the project . We started the project well, i first talked to julian about it in 1998 and asked if he would be my collaborator. We actually invited the first guest in the year 2000. The project ended, we did our last interview in 2014. How did the idea come up . Initially, it was my idea. I was creating for the university an institute for public history. And i was trying to design some projects that would fall within the category of public history. Of course, part of public history, oral history is a big component of how public historians think of them Services Going out and collecting materials and stories that would otherwise not be available. And once julian bond came into the hi
Classism. Thats smacking them in the face. They dont have access to this. They dont have access to that. They cant get jobs. They cant get in. So i think thats the issue thats really going to probably be more of a galvanizing force in the future. On that note, thank you very much. Much. Youre welcome. Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 captioning performed by vitac now a selection of oral histories with Africanamerican Community leaders. The project called explorations in black leadership was a collaboration between university of virginia professors phyllis leflerr and julia bond. Its about 15 minutes. Phyllis, what is the explorations in black leadership project . Its a videotaped oral history interview series that was carried out at the university of virginia. It was done with the codirectorship of now the late jeweli i julian bond and myself. Its a project that brought prominent africanamerican leaders to the university in order to talk about their own personal l
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