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Tracy K'Meyer

Tracy K'Meyer, active in the SOHP while a graduate student at UNC-CH, is now assistant professor of history at the University of Louisville. She directs the university's Oral History Center, which she is striving to expand and model after the SOHP. K'Meyer also serves as advisor to a statewide oral history project on civil rights in Kentucky. Author of Interracialism and Christian Community in the Postwar South: The Story of the Koinonia Farm, K'Meyer is currently working on a new book on the Civil Rights Movement.

Oral History Publications

  • "'I Just Felt Called...': Oral History and the Meaning of Faith in American Religious History," Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 2, September 1999.

  • "An Interview with Charles T. Morrissey: Part II-"Living Independently: the Oral History Career of Charles T. Morrissey," Oral History Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter/Spring 1999.

  • "'It's Not Just Common Sense': A Blueprint for Teaching Oral History," Oral History Review, Vol. 25, Nos. 1-2, Summer/Fall 1998.

  • "An Interview with Charles T. Morrissey: Part I-'Getting Started: Beginning an Oral History Career,'" Oral History Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, Winter 1997.

  • "'What Koinonia is All About': The Role of Memory in a Changing Community," Oral History Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Summer 1997.

  • "An Interview with Willa K. Baum: A Career at the Regional Oral History Office," Oral History Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Summer 1997.

  • "Shared Memory in Community: Oral History, Community and Race Relations," in Resituating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Culture (Broadview Press, 1996).


Oral History Presentations

  • "Expanding Shared Authorship: Collaboration Among Interviewers/Editors," paper presented at the Oral History Association annual meeting, Anchorage, AK, Oct. 1999.

  • "Making a Witness: Southern Christians and Progressive Social Action," paper presented at the Oral History Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, Sept. 1997.

  • "Including Oral History in Academic Public History Programs," moderator and participant in roundtable at the Oral History Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 1996.

  • "Movement in a Border City: Memories of the Civil Rights Era in Louisville," paper presented at the Kentucky Oral History Commission Conference, Louisville, KY, Feb. 1996.

  • "Memory and Community: Past and Present in a Changing Community," paper presented at the Oral History Association annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI, Oct. 1995.

  • "Oral History in the Classroom," moderator and participant in roundtable at the Oral History Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 1994.

  • "Shared Memory in Community," paper presented at the International Conference on Oral History, New York, NY, Oct. 1994.

  • "`Women's Voices': What Oral History Teaches Us About Southern Women," presentation at the Price Waterhouse convention, Pinehurst, NC, September 1992.


Oral History Projects

  • Author, "Voices from the Louisville Civil Rights Movement," a Reader's Theaterpiece performed by the University of Louisville African American Theater Program, Feb. 1997. This production has been converted into an audiocassette and teaching packet for distribution in youth groups and schools, and has now been presented six times to church and community groups.

  • "Louisville's Tuskegee Airmen Veterans." Funded by the University of Louisville Office of the Provost, 1996-1997.

  • "Louisville's Peacemakers: The Faith and Activism of George and Jean Edwards." Funded by the Kentucky Oral History Commission, 1996.

  • "Grassroots History: Uncovering Family and Community Stories." Funded by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities, 1994.



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