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Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-021
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Roland H. Johnson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya from 1964 to 1966 on land settlement project. Interviewed in person, January 25, 1994. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-022
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Leander Jones served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Somalia from 1964 to 1966. Interviewed by phone, April 8, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-004
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Yvette Burgess served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria from 1961 to 1964. Interviewed by phone, June 8, 1996. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-017
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Ophelia Gona served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1961 to 1962. Interviewed in person, January 14, 1994. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-013
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Gerald Durley served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria from 1964 to 1966. Interviewed by phone, March 2, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-010
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. Patricia Darrah served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad from 1968 to 1969. Interviewed in person, February 1, 1994. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-023
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Lethronee Jones served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Somalia from 1964 to 1966. Interviewed by phone, April 6, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-026
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." C. Payne Lucas served as Peace Corps director in several African countries in the 1960s, as well as Peace Corps director for the African region. Interviewed in person, March 14, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-025
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. Daniel Littlefield served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1968 to 1970. Interviewed by phone, February 4, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-028
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Gloria Myklebust served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon from 1965 to 1967. Interviewed by phone, February 16, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-027
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. Carl E. Meacham served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia from 1964 to 1966. Interviewed by phone, March 23, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-031
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. William Seraile served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1963 to 1965. Interviewed in person, January 27, 1994. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-030
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. Matthew Plummer Jr. served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya from 1966 to 1967. Interviewed by phone, February 24, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-033
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Willie Wilkerson Jr. served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon from 1963 to 1965. Interviewed by phone, January 30, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-032
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Marilyn C. Turner served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia from 1969 to 1971. Interviewed by phone, February 25, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-034
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Gwendolyn Clark Williams served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1963 to 1965. Interviewed by phone, March 25, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Sound recording
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-006
Audio recording of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Tanzanian official Nsilo Swai addressing the Tanzania X group at their training facility at Syracuse University in October 1965. Speakers include Senator Kennedy; Dr. Fred G. Burke, director of the East Africa Studies program at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University; and A. Z. Nsilo Swai, Tanzania Minister of Industries, Mineral Resources and Power, and former Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations. After his speech, Swai takes questions from the volunteers. The audience may also include individuals from the Somalia and Malawi groups that trained at Syracuse with Tanzania X in the fall of 1965. The recording was made by Ingrid Liedman, a member of Tanzania X.
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-022
Michael (Mike) Castell served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from 1966 to 1968 on public health and community development projects. He and his wife trained in Texas and received intensive French language training. However, they were stationed in an area of Morocco where the people spoke only Arabic and Spanish. Castell spent his first year working alone in a laboratory in a tuberculosis sanitarium. Finding this frustrating, the couple transferred to a remote village where Mike worked with an USAID-sponsored chicken-raising project designed to improve the nutrition of school children. The second year provided a satisfying working relationship with Mike's Moroccan counterpart, but the project came to a disappointing conclusion. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, July 31, 2011. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-035
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Dr. Anne Wortham served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanganyika from 1963 to 1965 (Tanganyika III). Interviewed by phone, March 4, 1994. 1 tape (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-014-024
Part of a series of research interviews conducted by Jonathan Zimmerman for his article "Beyond Double Consciousness: Black Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, 1961-1971." Esther White Kaufman served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 1964 to 1966. Interviewed by phone, January 30, 1994. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2008-084
John Frantz served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan from 1968 to 1970 as a teacher in a medical school. He and his wife Mary (both doctors) were recruited to join. Accompanied by three of their four minor children, they were assigned to the Department of Internal Medicine at Nangrahar University in Jalalabad. The couple taught medical students at the university and at the adjoining hospital. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, July 8, 2008. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-025-013
Frank Gorman served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from 1969 to 1971 as an architect. He joined instead of going into the military. His in-country training consisted of intensive language classes with an emphasis on French and some Arabic. In his architectural work on housing in Morocco, Gorman learned from trial and error that designing houses to blend in (or resemble old city buildings) led to instant acceptance. During his tour, an assassination attempt was made on the king. Everyone heard this news except for Gorman and his friend, who realized something was wrong after encountering trucks of armed soldiers on the otherwise empty streets. After serving in Morocco, Gorman re-enlisted for another year and was sent to the Congo (later called Zaire). No white people had been seen in the Congo since missionaries were slaughtered there ten years before. Gorman had to work with a local Black man so as to not be perceived as hostile. He was able to build a school for the blind with a floor plan tailored to their needs. Interviewed and recorded by Ernest Zaremba, August 19, 2004. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2008-083
Dr. Mary Frantz served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan from June 1968 to June 1970 as a teacher of medical students. Frantz and her husband, Dr. John Frantz, and three daughters (ages 9, 11, and 14) participated in Peace Corps training in Western Colorado, where Mary and John studied Farsi. In Jalalabad, they were in charge of the Department of Internal Medicine at Nangrahar University, and taught medical students at the university and at the adjoining hospital. They also home-schooled their children. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, July 10, 2008. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2003-007-003
Vicki Merrill served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania from 1965 to 1967 as a teacher (Tanzania X). Between her sophomore and junior years of college, she had participated in Operation Crossroads Africa in Southern Rhodesia. She had five months of Peace Corps training at Syracuse University, where learning Swahili was not considered essential because the teaching was to be in English. Merrill was assigned to an all girls secondary school (a former Lutheran missionary school) that was outside of Moshi. She taught English and geography, traveled extensively, and participated in projects. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, September 26, 2002. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-013-009
Phyllis Noble served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria from 1965 to 1967 in a secondary education program. After graduating from Loyola University, she taught for one year in Chicago. During Peace Corps training at Michigan State University she learned the Ibo language, but was assigned to the mid-western region of the Niger Delta at a girls secondary school. Noble's time in Nigeria coincided with a civil disturbance and the Biafran War. The interview describes her school environment as well as her experience living on the edge of civil war in a town with a Shell-BP oil operation. Noble eventually had to evacuate with Shell-BP personnel to Lagos. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, August 1, 2004. 3 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).