So our histories do not die : Ball State University African-American Alumni Oral History Project

African-Americans have been attending what is now Ball State University from at least the 1920s, but very little has been recorded about their experiences here. As a member of the Ball State University African-American Alumni Oral History Project, my goal was to help record these individuals' stories, so that they could be written into the institution's history. As a team, we conducted oral history interviews with twenty African-Americans with experiences at Ball State to elicit stories of those experiences. These recorded interviews will permanently archived and stream able on the University Libraries' Digital Media Repository, along with verbatim transcripts. Through these recordings, future generations will learn about the struggles and triumphs of these individuals, and in this way, their histories shall not die, but live on.