Tacoma Community History Projects: Project Descriptions
A guide to oral history projects compiled by students in Professor Mike Honey's "Doing Community History" course. Projects date from 1991.
Project Descriptions by Year
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
- Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford (1993#03)
- American Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center (1993#04)
- A Blue-Collar Town: The Tacoma Labor Movement (1993#02)
- Civil Rights and Civic Pride: The Story of Harold Moss and the City of Tacoma (1993#09)
- The Community of Day Island (1993#06)
- The History of the Kitsap County Young Women's Christian Association (1993#05)
- Squaxin Island Lives (1993#01)
- Tacoma's Nihon Go Gakko - Japanese Language School (1993#08)
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
- Longshore Workers in Tacoma (1995#01)
- Senator Rosa D. Franklin: Small-Town Person, Big-City Activist (1995#02)
1998
- The History of Murray and Rosa Morgan (1998#04)
- Peter C. Stanup: A Leader among the Generous People (1998#03)
- Then and Now: Women Legislators in Washington State (1998#02)
- A Woman of Firsts: Nelda Jaeger-Kraemer (1998#01)
2007
- Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans (2007#07)
- The Drug War and Civil Rights (2007#06)
- La-Sy-El: Daughter of Swinomish (2007#03)
- 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
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)
2009
- The "Average" Airman: Stories of U.S.A.F. Aircraft Maintainters - Call # CHP 2014#10
- Father Bill Bichsel and Disarm Now Plowshares - Call # CHP 2014#03
- The Greek Community in Tacoma, Washington - Call # CHP 2014#07
- An Interview with Dr. Maxine Mimms Ph.d.: Building a Learning Community in Tacoma’s Hilltop Neighborhood - Call # CHP 2014#04
- James Walton: From Texas To Tacoma - Call # CHP 2014#05
- Lifting as We Climb: Mrs. Freddie Mae Barnett & the Tacoma City Association of Colored Women’s Club - Call # CHP 2014#09
- Madeline Taylor: 103-Year-Old 20th Century Working Married Woman - Call # CHP 2014#08
- A Mid-Knight Run - Call # CHP 2014#01
- Robert Elofson: The Lower Elwha Klallam and the Return of Their River - Call # CHP 2014#06
- What We Built Came Out of That Basement: Brian Skiffington on Hardcore Punk in Tacoma - Call # CHP 2014#02