NAACP Legal Defense Fund records
A major resource documenting the funding and activities of the NAACP fighting for Black civil rights in 20th Century America. It includes materials relating to key cases including:
The Black Frontline
This project has conducted 300 oral histories with Black doctors and nurses in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ghana. The UK section forms part of a broader project collecting memories of testimonies of Black healthcare workers in the UK. All contributions are anonymised.
Nationality, Identity and Belonging:
An Oral History of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and their Relationship to the British State, 1948-2018 This is an ongoing University of London project which contains interviews that highlight the importance of the Windrush Generation in Higher Education.
Reading’s Windrush Generation
The Memories of the Reading Windrush Generation and the Descendants is a series of oral-history recordings developed by members of Reading’s local Caribbean community and accessible online. The recordings include the memories of Caribbean-born migrants to the UK: Anderson Springer (Barbados), Grace Browne (Barbados), Neville Nelson (Jamaica), Nordia Nelson (Jamaica) and Rod Welsh (Barbados).
Britain at work
The Britain at Work: Voices from the Workplace 1945-1995 project interviewed people from a diverse range of backgrounds about their experience of work including those who are Caribbean-descended, e.g., Lily Crawford (Jamaica), Dermot Davis (Barbados), Glenroy Watson (Caribbean British), Frank Bailey (Guyana), Frank Murray (Guyana) and Sheila Emmanuel (Dominica). For audio and transcripts of the interviews […]
Birmingham Black Oral History Project
The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes including first impressions, religious experiences, education, experiences of racism, identity, as well as their thoughts on the future.
The Barnardo’s Oral History project
This project includes:
Making of Black Britain
Making of Black Britain is a non-profit organization collecting stories of the resilience of ordinary people. See:https://themakingofblackbritain.org/ https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-making-black-britain
Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
“Taking Action Against Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence,” is a toolkit launched by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to document and address online gender abuse worldwide. The 32 page paper aims to educate trainers about the impact of tech-facilitated gender-based violence and how to monitor gender violence and misogyny on X and other social media networks.
Portal on Gender-Based Violence in Africa
Created by Alt Advisory, based in South Africa, this website provides information on and mapping of responses to gender-based violence in African nations. Currently covered countries include Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria and Uganda. Each country file includes statistical information on trends, policies, and legislation.
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