Tacoma Community History Projects: African Americans

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

African Americans

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Helen Cecile Beck Stafford (1993#03)
Anna Carr: Tacoma’s First Female African American Bus Driver (2009#1)
African-American Life in Tacoma (1994#03)
Changing Peoples of Hilltop, The (1991#10)
Civil Rights and Civic Pride: The Story of Harold Moss and the City of Tacoma (1993#09)
Discrimination is the Bosses Tool: Tacoma Longshore Unions and African Americans (2007#9)
Hillside Community Church: A Path to Liberalism (1992#01)
History of the Tacoma Smelter and Its Workers, A (1992#04)
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)
A Mid-Knight Run (2014#01)
Oral History Project on Thomas Dixon and the Tacoma Urban League, An (1991#05)
Safe Streets Campaign, The: Tacoma and Pierce County Respond to Youth Violence (1994#01)
Senator Rosa D. Franklin: Small-Town Person, Big-City Activist (1995#02)
Tacoma Rescue Mission: Hope for the Homeless (1991#07)
Tacoma's African-American Baptist Church, Then and Now (1991#06)
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Fort Lewis and McChord GIs during the Viet Nam Era (1994#05)
Women and Tacoma’s Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss (2009#4)

Subjects: History