CONF: Southern Oral History Organization Conference, Atlanta 4/96

Josef J. Barton (texbart@merle.acns.nwu.edu)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:07:37 -0500

The third annual conference of the Southern Oral History
Organization (SOHO) will be held April 19-21, at the Jimmy Carter
Library in Atlanta. The program is as follows:

Friday, April 19:

6:00 p.m. registration and reception

7:00 Keynote speaker

Charles Payne, Northwestern University
"Oral History and Rethinking the Civil
Rights Movement"

Saturday, April 20:

8:30 a.m. registration

9:00-11:00 High school teachers roundtable

Black and white health care

Rose Cannon, Emory University
"Georgia's Twentieth Century Public
Health Nurses: A Social History of Racial
Relations"

Karen Cruse Thomas, UNC-Chapel Hill
"Sirens Across the Tracks: Black Health
Care in Wilson County,
North Carolina, 1940-1980"

Screening of "Family Name" film

Macky Alston, director "Family Name"

11:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:00 Issues in Black Education:
Atlanta University Center Educators

Ora L. Cooks, Clark Atlanta University
Gwendolyn Garrison, Clark Atlanta University
Belinda Oliver, Clark Atlanta University
Phillip Hood, Clark Atlanta University

New Books in Atlanta History

Gary Pomerantz, author of Where Peachtree
Street Meets Sweet Auburn
Ronald Bayor, author of Race and Public
Policy in Twentieth Century Atlanta

Southern Oral History and the Internet

Chuck Thomas, UNC-Chapel Hill

3:15-5:15 Workshop: Doing Oral History

Cliff Kuhn, Georgia State University

Screening of "Family Name"

Macky Alston, director "Family Name"

5:30-7:30 dinner

7:30 Making Theater from Oral History

Tom DeTitta, Playwright, "The Reach of Song,"
Director, Center for the Advancement of
Community Based Theater

Sunday, April 21:

9:00-11:00 SOHO business meeting

REGISTRATION: $35, $5 for students. If registering in advance,
send check payable to SOHO to John Howard, National Faculty,
Healey Building, 57 Forsyth Street, Suite 600, Atlanta, GA 30303.

To get to the Carter Library, take Exit 96 off of I-75/85 and
follow signs to the Carter Center. Enter at Museum entrance.

Affiliated with the Oral History Association, SOHO was formed to
better coordinate and advance oral history efforts in the region.
For more information, contact Cliff Kuhn: hiscmk@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
of c/o History Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
30303.