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Tacoma Community History Projects: Title List

A guide to oral history projects compiled by students in Professor Mike Honey's "Doing Community History" course. Projects date from 1991.

1991

A Brief Study of Land Use by Indian and Pioneer Communities on the Key Peninsula (1991#01)
The Changing Peoples of Hilltop (1991#10)
An Interview with Eudoro Estrada (1991#02)
An Interview with Luke Joinette (1991#12)
Italians in Hilltop (1991#03)
Oral History Project, Joseph Kosai - A Japanese Internment Experience (1991#04)
An Oral History Project on Thomas Dixon and the Tacoma Urban League (1991#05)
Refugees: Cambodians and Other New Asian Immigrants (1991#11)
The Slavic Fishermen of the Puget Sound (1991#09)
Tacoma Rescue Mission: Hope for the Homeless (1991#07)
Tacoma's African-American Baptist Church, Then and Now (1991#06)
Takemura, Thomas Shoji: Camp Harmony (1942) (1991#08)

1992

From Tules to Tiara: A History of the Masonic Temple Building and Temple Theatre (1992#09)
Hillside Community Church - A Path to Liberalism (1992#01)
The History of Council 28: The Washington Federation of State Employees (1992#02)
A History of the Tacoma Smelter and It's Workers (1992#04)
Meet the Tacoma Friends (1992#07)
St. Leo the Great Parish: Tacoma, Washington (1992#08)
A Sweet Taste of Success - A History of Tacoma's Own Fred Haley and the Brown & Haley Company (1992#03)
Tacoma Buddhist Temple (1992#06)
Tacoma Judaism - One Hundred Years, 1892-1992 (1992#05)

1993

1994

African-American Life in Tacoma (1994#03)
A Concrete Look at Our Community (1994#06)
An Honorable Man: Judge Bertil E. Johnson (1994#09)
The Puyallup Tribe: History and Contributions to the South Puget Sound (1994#02)
Safe Streets Campaign: Tacoma and Pierce County Respond to Youth Violence (1994#01)
Sisters of Providence and Sister Frances Cabrini (1994#07)
Swiss Immigration (1994#04)
A Tradition of Excellence: The Sonntags and Public Service (1994#08)
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Fort Lewis and McChord GIs during the Viet Nam Era (1994#05)

1995

1998

2007

The Chronicles of the Life of Wilmott Ragsdale – Call# 2007#07
Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans (2007#09)
The Drug War and Civil Rights (2007#06)
La-Sy-El: Daughter of Swinomish (2007#03)
Lyle Quasim- Activism is about taking action – Call# 2007#08
Mexican Americans from Mexico to Washington State: Discrimination and Segregation in the Memory of One Witness (2007#02)
Michael Dougliss and Whidbey Island (2007#05)
A National Coalition: From Safety and Shelters to Public Policy and Systems Change (2007#01)
The U.S. Navy During World War II: One Man's Experience (2007#04)

2008

Lorraine Elizabeth Joseph: Puyallup Tribal Elder (2008#01)

2009

Anna Carr: Tacoma’s First Female African American Bus Driver (2009#01)
Dawn Lucien: Civic Pride and the Ebb and Flow of Tacoma’s Development (2009#02)
Urban Native Americas: A Tacoma Story An Interview with Joan Staples (2009#03)
Women and Tacoma’s Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss (2009#04)

2014

The "Average" Airman: Stories of U.S.A.F. Aircraft Maintainters (2014#10)
Father Bill Bichsel and Disarm Now Plowshares (2014#03)
The Greek Community in Tacoma, Washington (2014#07)
An Interview with Dr. Maxine Mimms Ph.d.: Building a Learning Community in Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood (2014#04)
James Walton: From Texas To Tacoma (2014#05)
Lifting as We Climb: Mrs. Freddie Mae Barnett & the Tacoma City Association of Colored Women’s Club (2014#09)
Madeline Taylor: 103-Year-Old 20th Century Working Married Woman (2014#08)
A Mid-Knight Run (2014#01)
Robert Elofson: The Lower Elwha Klallam and the Return of Their River (2014#06)
What We Built Came Out of That Basement: Brian Skiffington on Hardcore Punk in Tacoma (2014#02)

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