“Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices from the Factory” was a project conducted in 1999 by the Cultural Arts Department of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS). The main objective of “Voices from the Factory” was to document, through oral testimonies, the history of the Detroit area’s Arab immigrants in the automobile industry. and The interview was conducted on two days, 9/9/1999 and 2/2/2000.
Date Issued:
1999-09-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Arab American National Museum
Collection:
Arab Americans and the Automobile - Voices from the Factory Collection
Part of a series of interviews in the Arab American community completed by Dr. Alixa Naff in 1962., Original tape contains audio of joint interview with Essa M. and Sam S. of Manchester, New Hampshire. Interview is primarily in Arabic with some English., and Interview was originally completed on a reel-to-reel tape and was digitized in 2016 through a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Arab American National Museum.
Notes:
Source: Archives Center at the National Museum of American History and Related item: Essa and Mary M. interview notes: http://cdm16806.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16806coll10/id/106/rec/80
Date Issued:
1962-08-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Arab American National Museum
Collection:
Oral Histories from the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection