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“I, Too, Have a Voice”: Authentic Stories from the Brown v. Board Experience in Topeka, Kansas

Marietta Patterson

Dr. Beryl New, Ed.D.

Topeka has a wealth of citizens who can recall the impact of the Brown v. Board decision on their lives and within the Topeka community before and after the historic decision.

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“Unsettled Lawrence”: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence

Rachel Schwaller

Multi-Term Lecturer University of Kansas

We often tell the history of Lawrence, Kansas from the perspective of settlement in the “great American desert.” Even moments of dis-settlement, such as Quantrill’s Raid, are couched as victorious resettlement. Such a narrative elevates settling (often by white “homesteaders”) while stigmatizing other forms of occupancy as non-settlement.

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{B/qKC}: Black/queer Kansas City

Nasir Anthony Montalvo

Managing Editor, Kansas City Defender Kansas City Defender

Black/queer Kansas City, stylized as {B/qKC}, is a digital archive, historical anthology and moving exhibit that educates audiences on the contributions of local Black LGBTQIA2S+ community members––in turn, liberating their histories from racism and homophobia-fueled erasure.

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American Indian Digital History Project

Jason Heppler

Research Director, American Indian Digital History Project; Senior Web Developer, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University George Mason University

Kent Blansett

Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All University of Kansas

Founded in 2010, the American Indian Digital History Project works with Tribal archives, community members, organizations, and colleges to recover, preserve, and increase free & open searchable access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials throughout Native North America. It promotes accurate and responsible research and reporting that focuses on Indigenous nations, communities, and peoples.

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An Era of Rights: Kansas City’s Struggle for Equality, 1950-1980

Jason Roe

Digital History Specialist Kansas City Public Library

David LaCrone

Digital Branch Manager, Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library

Katie Sowder

Digital History Collections Librarian, Kansas City Public Library Kansas City Public Library

We are beginning a digital history project that will document and analyze the major events and themes of the Civil Rights struggle in Kansas City.

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beautiful ashe: memoirs of a sweet black boy & other poems

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

Co-founder B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

Alex Kimball Williams

Co-founder B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

This audiobook project will make available a poetic memoir that speaks to the difficulties of growing up as a Black male on the East Coast of the United States. It addresses the homophobia, sexism, and classism that runs rampant in this country in brutal and vulnerable realism. This poetry is meant to bolster the resolve to continue towards (r)evolution, and addresses the contradictions and counterrevolutionary aspects of the self.

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Bench by the Road Stories: The Stories of the Bench by the Road Project

Carolyn Denard

Founder and Board Chair, The Toni Morrison Society The Toni Morrison Society

Craig Stutman

Associate Professor of History and Public Policy, Delaware Valley University Delaware Valley University

The Toni Morrison Society’s Bench by the Road Project has placed benches and accompanying plaques at 32 sites around the world memorializing people and events from African American and African diasporic history. The Society plans to create a digital archive documenting the histories of each of these sites, including audio and video recordings with individuals in the communities where each Bench was placed.

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BLINK!

Cia Cole

B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

This documentary storytelling project shows how classical music in urban communities inspires intuitive movement and value. It describes how classical music creates instantaneously powerful movements and leaders through interdisciplinary dialogue around the arts, history and sciences. Interviews and storytelling will illustrate the influence of classical music and fine arts upon past, present and modern movements.

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Building Black Kansas City

Carmaletta Williams

Executive Director, Black Archives of Mid-America Black Archives of Mid-America

Building Black Kansas City is an oral history project focusing on the African American experience in Kansas City, MO in the mid twentieth century, beginning at the end of World War II. These stories will chronicle the building of Black Kansas City through varying aspects of its culture, collecting and making accessible the voices of individuals who might not otherwise have an opportunity to share their personal stories from a bygone era.

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Building Interdisciplinary Stories with the Integrated Arts Research Initiative at the Spencer Museum of Art

Joey Orr

The Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Ryan Waggoner

Director of Creative Services, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Each academic year, the Arts Research Integration (ARI) at the Spencer Museum of Art organizes an inquiry that encompasses a large spectrum of practitioners across the arts, sciences, and humanities.

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Coming to the Heartland

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

Professor of English, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Elizabeth MacGonagle

Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Focusing on the diversity, adversity, and struggles of Latin American and African immigrants in the Heartland, this initiative asks how the new digital age affects the stories that immigrants tell, as well as the possibilities for their visibility in the wider community.

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Community-based Approaches to Sigital Storytelling: Marginalized Women’s Technology Access and Use

Hyunjin Seo

Professor, Oscar Stauffer Chair in Journalism, and Associate Dean for Research and Development, William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Kansas University of Kansas

This project offers education in digital storytelling technology to women transitioning from incarceration. Based on a co-design approach, the program participants will learn and use digital storytelling techniques to tell their own stories of challenges and opportunities related to online privacy and security.

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Connecting our Community to its Past through Digital Resources

Steve Nowak

Executive Director, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

Will Haynes

Director of Engagement and Learning, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

Sarah Bell

Development Director, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

Brittany Keegan

Curator of Exhibits and Collections, Watkins Museum of History Watkins Museum of History

In 2022, the Watkins Museum decided to expand its permanent exhibit on Indigenous peoples in Douglas County beyond two exhibit panels. Will Haynes, the museum’s director of engagement and learning, began by forming an advisory group and reached out to representatives of the Kaw Nation, Delaware Tribe, Shawnee Tribe, Osage Nation, and Wyandot Nation.

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COVID-19 in the News: Community Coverage of a Global Event

Erin Wolfe

Metadata Librarian, University of Kansas University of Kansas

This project attempts to apply a macro lens to a community’s response to a global situation through in-depth analysis of local newspapers’ coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. A variety of natural language processing and textual analysis approaches will be applied to articles published in four news sources from Douglas County, Kansas, beginning with the first mentions of COVID-19 in January 2020 and continuing to the present.

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COVID-19 Stories

Kathryn Conrad

Professor and Chair of English, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Ani Kokobobo

Associate Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas University of Kansas

“COVID-19 stories” includes formal narratives, social media stories, snapshots, drawings, or anything else that captures experiences of the pandemic in Douglas County, Kansas. The gathered stories will be collected in a digital, open access medium and together will illuminate the shared vulnerabilities that connect us to each other.

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Decolonizing Information Paths: (Re) Visualizing Indigenous Sovereignty in Academic Libraries

L. Marie Avila

Undergraduate Engagement Librarian, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Decolonizing Information Paths: (Re) Visualizing Indigenous Sovereignty in Academic Libraries provides a decolonized version of academic librarianship by employing digital storytelling techniques to delineate networks of Indigenous librarianship, acknowledging the sovereignty of that professional network.

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Digital Douglas County History

Brad Allen

Executive Director, Lawrence Public Library Lawrence Public Library

Melissa Fisher Isaacs

Information Services Coordinator, Lawrence Public Library Lawrence Public Library

The Lawrence Public Library launched this project in partnership with the Watkins Museum of History in 2017. A portal to digital local history, Digital Douglas County History uses Omeka, an open source web-publishing platform, as its framework.

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Dockum Drug Store Sit-In Virtual Reality Project

Ebony Clemons-Ajibolade

Past President of the Board, The Kansas African American Museum Kansas African American Museum

Denise Sherman

Executive Director, The Kansas African American Museum Kansas African American Museum

On July 19, 1958, a group of Wichita students began a movement, the Dockum Drug Store Sit-In, that would become a critical moment in the history of ending segregation. The student activists exhibited the attributes, characteristics, and skills of emerging leaders. Through their planning, preparation, organization, commitment, respect, and dedication, they effected change during a very volatile time.

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Emmett Till Memory Project

Dave Tell

Professor of Communication Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Twenty-first century attempts to commemorate the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till have been met with persistent vandalism. Born in direct response to that vandalism, the Emmett Till Memory Project is a website and mobile application that preserves the sites and stories of the Till lynching. The ETMP uses GPS technology to take users to the most important sites in the Till story.

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Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation

Marlo Angell

Project Director/ Filmmaker, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Peter Jasso

Filmmaker, Incomplete Films Incomplete Films

Ben Ahlvers

Exhibitions Director, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Blanca Herrada

Exhibitions Coordinator, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Johnathan Christensen Caballero

Artist, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Ann Dean

Photographer, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Finding La Yarda is an immersive multimedia art experience recreating a room from La Yarda, the housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers in Lawrence, Kansas from 1920-51. Using film, sound, art and digital storytelling practices, Finding La Yarda brings oral history to life by taking audiences on a cultural journey through time and place.

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Free State Story Slam

Margaret Morris

Chief Executive Officer, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

David Hollond

Founder, Free State Story Slam; Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Elizabeth Sullivan

Director of Performing Arts, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

For 11 years, the Free State Story Slam storytelling series has had a home at the Lawrence Arts Center. The monthly Story Slam provides storytellers an opportunity to tell true stories in front of a live audience.

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From Disability Rights to Disability Justice in Kansas: Reflecting on the First Fifty Years, Anticipating Better Futures

Ray Mizumura-Pence

Associate Teaching Professor, Department of American Studies University of Kansas

The project chronicles the pursuit of disability rights and justice in Kansas as an ongoing struggle. Some fifty years ago, a disability rights movement emerged in the United States along with passage of federal laws mandating accessibility and forbidding discrimination. This movement has expanded, diversified, and responded to myriad challenges.

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GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs

Sylvia Fernández

(Until December 2021) Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All / (From January 2022) Assistant Professor, Digital Technology and Culture, University of Kansas

Gris Muñoz

Independent writer / Escritora independiente

GeoTestimonios is a living border-community storytelling project that reappropriates personal experiences through testimonies and literary narratives about life in the El Paso-Juárez border region. This work is a collaboration between border poet and author Gris Muñoz and academic and digital humanist Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla.

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Gila River Generations

Shane Lynch

PhD Candidate in American Studies University of Kansas

This Indigenous videogame, based in the O’odham and Pee Posh cultures, incorporates traditional stories that guide the player from creation narratives to the near present, celebrating the unification and continuations of culture. The game operates as a pixel graphic game with 2D, 3D, and side scrolling elements that is played from an overhead view and first-person RPG/Shooter perspectives

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Heartland Makers Collective: Digitizing the Wak’o Mujeres Phu Nu Womxn Mural Project: Stories of Kansas Women of Color

Imani Wadud

Heartland Makers Collective Community Project Facilitator and Program Coordinator Heartland Makers Collective

The Wak'o Mujeres Phu Nu Womxn Mural Project: Stories of Kansas Women of Color, nearly eight feet tall and half a city block in length, is a project for women of color, by women of color, to empower women of color. The mural was based on over twenty oral histories conducted by the Women of Color Makers Collective. These oral histories will now be transcribed, digitized, and shared with the public in the form of podcasts and an online digital…

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History of Black Writing (HBW)

Ayesha Hardison

Associate Professor of English and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Director, History of Black Writing, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All University of Kansas

Since its establishment in 1983, the History of Black Writing (HBW) has committed to literary recovery work and public programming.

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Invested Stayers: Portraits of Teachers who Thrive in Challenging Times

Heidi L. Hallman

Professor of Curriculum and Teaching University of Kansas

Terri L. Rodriguez

Professor of Education College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University

Kristen Pastore-Capuana

Assistant Professor of English Buffalo State College

“Invested Stayers: Portraits of Teachers who Thrive in Challenging Times” features stories of K-12 teachers in U.S. schools who we call invested stayers, or those who have persisted and thrived in the teaching profession.

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Kansas City’s Culturally Diverse Communities and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Oral Histories

Tara Laver

Senior Archivist Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

This project will result in 25 oral history interviews documenting the historical lived experiences and perceptions of the museum among multiple Kansas City communities. This work is especially relevant and timely as the museum begins to think about how it will celebrate its centennial in 2033, a time that will bring greater focus on and interest in the institution’s history.

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Kansas: An Eclogue

Patrick Ross

Independent Filmmaker Independent Storytellers

Joshua Nathan

Independent Filmmaker Independent Storytellers

KANSAS: An Eclogue will be a full-length documentary film. The project evolved from a walking journey across the state of Kansas by the film’s co-directors, Patrick Ross and Joshua Nathan, independent filmmakers from Kansas, now living in Los Angeles, CA. In more than 35 hours of filmed interviews, they captured stories about rural/small-town Kansas life.

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Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas

Bobby Cervantes

PhD Candidate in American Studies University of Kansas

Scholarly and popular accounts of the U.S.-Mexico border, one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical divides, often depict nearby communities as caught between clashing nations. Yet, such framing obscures both countries’ far-reaching policy collaborations that have structured vast inequality as a condition of local life.

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Negro League Video Shorts

Bob Kendrick

President, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Storytelling has long played an important role in filling the void of Black history which is often excluded from the pages of American History books. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon foundation, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) will create biographical video segments on legendary Negro League players, teams, and key moments in Black Baseball history.

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Our Tomorrows

Rebecca Gillam

Associate Director, Center for Public Partnerships and Research University of Kansas

Jenny Flinders

Research Project Manager, Center for Public Partnerships and Research University of Kansas

Our Tomorrows utilizes a novel framework to capture family experiences about thriving and surviving to inform policies and practices to better meet the needs of families. Anyone can share experiences or narratives, and then add their own interpretive meaning by responding to a series of unique question forms.

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Pa k’u’x / Desde el centro / From the Center

Ignacio Carvajal

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All University of Kansas

Nela Tahay

K’iche’ instructor, Nahualá, Sololá, Guatemala

Willy Barreno

Founder, Ki’kotemal Tijob’al, Guatemala

Vianna González

Founder, Ki’kotemal Tijob’al, Guatemala

This project serves two main purposes, both of them anchored around Guatemala specifically and Central America in general. The first aim of the project is to create a digital repository dedicated to Maya K’iche’ language learning. K’iche’ is the most widely spoken Mayan language in Guatemala.

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Police Brutality Song

Alex Kimball Williams

Co-founder B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

Co-founder B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

Cia Cole

B.L.A.C.K. Lawrence

This music video will tell regional stories of police brutality. The song describes the beautiful life and dreams of a young Black man whose life is taken too soon by police in his neighborhood. It speaks to the resilience, fear, and loss deeply felt by Black people each time a new hashtag is birthed. The content is gentle and sensitive, so that audiences of various ages (3rd grade and up) have enjoyed and understood it.

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Preserving the History and Contributions of Interprofessional Practice and Education

Teri Kennedy

Ida Johnson Feaster Professor of Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research, and Associate Dean, Office of Interprofessional Practice, Education, Policy, and Research, School of Nursing University of Kansas

IPE@KUMC/KU preserves the history and continuing contributions to interprofessional practice and education (IPE) by The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and The University of Kansas (KU) through a podcast series, oral histories, and archival documents to be preserved in collaboration with the Clendening History of Medicine Library and KUMC Archives. IPE is ultimately about social justice.

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Queer Voices

Courtney Farr

Chair of Community Engagement Lawrence PRIDE

Shania Lopez-Cabrera

Finance Chair Lawrence PRIDE

Queer Voices gathers local LGBTQ+ members together for evenings of story telling from our community. Speakers share true stories from their lives that run the gamut from historic protests, bad first dates, to the dangers and joys of existing in Kansas as a queer person. With the support of Stories for All, participants will be able to opt in to having their stories recorded to be added to an archive of queer experiences in this area.

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Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms

María Velasco

Professor, Visual Art University of Kansas

Valerie Mendoza

Independent Public Historian Washburn University

Matt Jacobson

Professor, Film and Media Studies University of Kansas

Donna Rae Pearson

Local Historian, Kitchen Table History Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library

“Reclaiming Home” will tell the story of Topeka’s Bottoms neighborhood through oral history, a documentary and art. In the 1950s and ’60s, more than 3,000 Topekans were forced to leave their homes and businesses in the Bottoms district in downtown to make way for new real estate development as part of the Urban Renewal Project.

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rePRO Film

Lela Meadow-Conner

Curator/Producer/Founder mama.film

Mallory Martin

Co-Founder, rePRO Film, Artistic Director, Artistic Director Cleveland International Film Festival

Kylie Brown

repRO Film Digital Director, Livefree Lab Livefree Lab

Neha Aziz

rePRO Film Programmer, Programmer at Cleveland International Film Festival, Austin Asian American Film Festival, Podcaster Cleveland International Film Festival

Asha Dahya

rePRO Podcast Host, Author, TEDx speaker and founder of GirlTalkHQ.com GirlTalkHQ

Emily Christensen

rePRO Periodical Copywriter

Jill Lafer

rePRO Consultant

The rePRO Film Periodical is a free, monthly newsletter available via email and online. Each issue centers an area of reproductive and health and justice and includes a curated short film, an original interview podcast featuring storytellers and activists, further reading and links to advocacy organizations.

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Showcasing Open Space through Accessible Adventure

Jonathan Groene

38North

Clara Groene

38North

Stuart Beals

38North

Stephen Garlow

38North

Jenna Goodman

38North

38N invites Kansans to tell their stories of adventure in the Sunflower State. Outdoor novices and accomplished adventurers, skilled and unskilled artists, are all welcome to tell their Kansas adventure stories in their own, unique manner. There are three simple guidelines: the adventure must be self-propelled, self-supported, and must take place in Kansas.

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Stories of African-American Life in Lawrence

Ursula Minor

President Lawrence NAACP

Lois Orth-Lopes

Assistant Secretary Lawrence NAACP

Sara Minor

Secretary Lawrence NAACP

This project will collect stories from local black families about the racial history of Lawrence, KS. In recent years, the local NAACP chapter has worked with the city and the Equal Justice Initiative to bring high-profile moments of local racism to light. But for every moment of high-profile racism, there are dozens of untold stories of the black experience.

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Survivors Speak: Centering Survivor Autonomy in Digital Storytelling

Stephanie Krehbiel

Executive Director and Co-Founder Into Account

Jay Yoder

Director of Operations and Co-Founder Into Account

Erin Bergen

Director of Student Advocacy Into Account

Sexualized violence survivors are often considered socially suspect voices in the accounting of their own experiences, and given undersized roles in shaping the narrative that makes sense of what justice looks like after acts of sexualized violence. In a reflection of existing social inequities, a survivor’s account of their own experience is only as authoritative as their social power, and the social power of those who believe them, allow/s.

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Tell Me a Story

Erin Raux

Museum Director Mid-America All-Indian Museum

April Scott

Executive Director Mid-America All-Indian Museum

Michelle Conine

Education Coordinator Mid-America All-Indian Museum

We are a museum dedicated to educating people about and preserving the heritage of the American Indian for future generations. As part of our mission, we have created our TELL ME A STORY studio. In Native culture, stories are told to educate children about cultural morals and values. When someone ceases to tell a story, part of the cultural knowledge is gone.

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The Boston Reproductive Justice Audiowalk

Katie Batza

Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies University of Kansas

This Audiowalk is a work of historical scholarship, a call to arms, and a motivational tool for continued efforts toward reproductive justice. It traces the struggles of reproductive justice onto the Boston landscape while simultaneously expanding definitions of reproductive justice.

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The Chicano Movement in Kansas

Valerie Mendoza

Independent Public Historian Washburn University

This project consists of oral histories of Kansas Chicano Movement leaders from the 1970s.These activists drew inspiration from the national Chicano Movement and their initiatives impacted the Kansas Latinx population in ways that reverberate to this day in the areas of civil rights, educational opportunities and voting power.

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The Jurisprudence and Child Privacy Praxis of Black and Native-American Home Education

The tradition of Black home education dates back to 1787, when Prince Hall petitioned the Massachusetts Legislature for a “Free Africa” school for the children of free Black families. Although Massachusetts was the first state to recognize a universal right of education and the state did not require segregation, the damaging and discriminatory treatment Black children experienced, compelled Black parents to seek separate schools.

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The Queer Narratives Festival

Stacy Busch

co-founder and executive director No Divide KC

Waleska Barroeta

marketing manager No Divide KC

The Queer Narratives Festival is an annual performing and visual arts festival highlighting the Kansas City LGBTQ+ community. By prioritizing the LGBTQ+ community, it offers a safe space for artists and audiences to express themselves fully. The Queer Narratives Festival is one of its kind in presenting the highest quality of LGBTQ+ artists while showcasing art forms that are not often invited in traditional art spaces.

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Trading Fours: An Oral Exchange on Jazz Musical Influence and Biography

Rashida Phillips

Executive Director American Jazz Museum

James McGee

Senior Manager of Visitor and Virtual Experience American Jazz Museum

The American Jazz Museum’s permanent exhibition features four prominent icons, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. Each of these icons center jazz as an American experience born of creativity, innovation, and black culture.

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Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (GLBTQ) People in Kansas

Tami Albin

Associate Librarian, Center for Faculty/Staff Initiatives and Engagement University of Kansas

Over the last 10-15 years there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the field of queer rural studies to correct for previous assumptions that queer history was always urban and usually on the coast. Yet, even within the scholarship that has been produced, Kansas is frequently overlooked as a site where GLBTQ people exist and have lived for a very long time.

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Untold Stories

Sarah Jen

Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare; Director, Sigler Family Aging Scholars Program University of Kansas

Olivia Sabal

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar University of Kansas

Kamri Wolverton

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar University of Kansas

Tobi Barta

MSW Sigler Family Aging Scholar University of Kansas

Untold Stories is an arts-based community-action project, seeking to illuminate the experiences of older adults through conversation, collaboration, art, and advocacy.

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Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS

Marla Arna Jackson

Director African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy

“Untold Stories: Former Enslaved Americans Who Sought Freedom in Lawrence, KS” shines a light on explores the often-overlooked reality of life for the previously enslaved, who continued to struggle to achieve equality long after the war.

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Voices of Dementia

Amy Berkley

Independent Storyteller Independent Storytellers

Of the sixty million Americans providing care to a family member, two thirds are women providing care to aging mothers. These stories explore the unique relationships between aging mothers and their adult daughters, and how those relationships change with the onset of dementia. These stories and analyses will be collected into an online archive accessible to families undergoing similar experiences.

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Voices of the Displaced

Nishani Frazier

Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All and Associate Professor of History and American Studies University of Kansas

Amanda Lawson

Assistant Director of Research for the L.I.F.E. Research Lab Miami University

Gentrification, the calculated reclamation of black urban spaces for financially affluent new homeowners, is spreading through black communities across America. After years of economic oppression and deprivation, the black community now stands at the edge of perhaps the greatest community dispersal in its history.

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Who Gets To Parent?

Pere DeRoy

Doctoral Candidate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies University of Kansas

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Assistant Professor, Directing and Social Justice Theatre University of California, Berkeley

Who Gets To Parent? is a series of short digital stories, a cross between documentary and vlog, that looks at the experiences of Queer, Trans and BIPOC people navigating pregnancy and birthing within a medical system that presents many systemic barriers that are racist, classist, xenophobic, sexuality and sexist based.

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Wichita Nonwhite Business Owners tell Their Stories

Jay Price

Professor of History and Director of the Local and Community History Program Wichita State University

Sue Abdinnour

Omer Distinguished Professor in Business Wichita State University

Robert Weems

Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History Wichita State University

Nonwhite entrepreneurs rarely appear in broad-based histories or surveys of American enterprise. Existing studies of ethnic/nonwhite businesses focus upon commercial operations; this project gives priority to illuminating the motivations of nonwhite individuals to become entrepreneurs.

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