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- Documentary filmmaker Peter Davis talks about his career, and his work to end Apartheid in South Africa. Peter Limb, MSU Libraries Area Studies Librarian, interviews Davis. Davis recalls his youth in London during WWII, university, teaching, and his move to film production. He explains how he became associated with Citizens Association for Racial Equality (C.A.R.E.) and developed an interest in Africa. Davis also describes film making in South Africa, the Soweto Uprising, his relationship with the Mandelas, and his efforts to preserve South African films. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the African Studies Center.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Grand Haven historian, author, and dentist Dave Seibold has a passionate interest in community heritage. Prior to relocating to Grand Haven, Dr. Seibold served in Hawaii at a dental clinic for children. In this interview, Dr. Seibold and his wife Dottie discuss the founding of the Grand Haven Area Historical Society, which began its existence as the Tri-Cities Historical Society in 1959, and the Tri-Cities Historical Museum. Dr. Seibold explains the efforts to save the Grand Haven railroad depot from demolition for possible use as a museum and his project to write a history of northern Ottawa County to continue the work of historian Leo C. Lillie. In 1990, Dr. Seibold authored and published Coast Guard City, U.S.A: A History of the Port of Grand Haven. The Seibolds also recall how they met in their hometown of Jackson, Michigan, married, and chose Grand Haven as their home in 1955.
- Date Issued:
- 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Historian, writer and performer Dennis Stroughmatt tells the story of the French Creoles who settled the Illinois country over three hundred years ago. In his talk, "French Creole Music and Language from the Missouri Mines, 1723-2008", Stroughmatt mixes fiddle music, singing and story telling to demonstrate the French Creole dialect of the Mississippi and Wabash river corridors. He tells the history of the people and their culture and explains the connection Michigan had as a corridor through which trappers, settlers, and commerce passed, carrying French influence to the interior of North America. Includes a question and answer session. Stroughmatt is introduced by Michigan State University Profeffor John P. Beck. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Co-sponsored by the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series presented by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-03-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Norm Paggeot made a habit of jumping from balloons and airplanes. In this collection of reminiscences, he talks about biplanes, making his own parachutes, the history of the Grand Haven area airport, a plane crash into a house, and other accidents and mishaps he experienced. He shares the story of his first jump.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Stanford University history professor Estelle Freedmen delivers a talk entitled "Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation." Freedman explores the efforts of both women's rights and racial justice advocates who have tried to change legal and cultural constructions of sexual violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her talk revolves around the following three points: the historically fluid concept of rape, rape's relationship to citizenship, and the particular historical context in which legal changes have occurred as well as their limits.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-03-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Sachiko Rummel says that she lost her father from radiation related disease after the Hiroshima blast and had a difficult childhood raising her sisters, brother and her sick mother. She explains that she came to Canada after her marriage and only recently started speaking about her experience.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-23T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- George Formby, a British entertainer, talks about the difficulties of recording his voice.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Kazue Kawasaki talks about losing all of her classmates in the Hiroshima bombing while she survived because she was at work in an arms factory. She talks about feeling shame in the aftermath of the bombing because she still had her clothes on while everyone else was naked and burned. She also talks about immigrating to the U.S.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-03-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In part three of the Michigan Writers Series event "Music History: Dramatizing the African American Experience", playwright Sandra Seaton joins cast members and Michigan State University faculty members for a question and answer session following a dramatic reading of scenes from her play "Music History" and a panel discussion of themes presented in her work. Participants discuss the historical context of the play, music and culture, the civil rights movement and the creative process. Brian Collins from the MSU Alumni Association also explains how new technology can augment classroom instruction. Held at the MSU Main Library.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Elizabeth Crane Anesi talks about enlisting for officer training in the Women's U.S. Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, establishing an embarkation point in San Francisco as her first major assignment, and how the WAAC was changed to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) within a year of her enlistment. Anesi also talks about being transferred to New York, visiting President Roosevelt's grave, establishing a rest and relaxation post at an unused dorm at Vassar College, and her last assignment which was conducting POW separation interviews in Indiana.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-03-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection