Sarah Moeller

Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Enhancing Public Engagement will further develop an open-access, easy-to-use, web-based interface that provides users with resources to enhance student and community engagement with the oral histories and learning modules centered on spoken African American Language. We will expand the project’s impact by going beyond the normal scope of university public engagement and being guided by community feedback and expressed needs. We will respond directly to the needs of a specific marginalized and neglected community by continuing to engage with the Black community within Putnam County, Florida. We will focus our efforts on the oral history of students who attended the first Black schools in Florida before integration.