by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Feb 25, 2016 | Civil Rights in the 20th Century
By Mary Manning, Ph.D., 2015-16 Local History Corps AmeriCorps Member Examining the history of Oberlin’s barber shops means addressing a situation in which overt discrimination was standard practice, far into the twentieth century and throughout the United States. In...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 1, 2015 | Oberlin Heritage Center Collections
by Eileen Telegdy, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer I am Eileen Telegdy and in October of 2014 I retired, sold my home and moved to a condo in Oberlin. I responded to an ad Liz Schultz, the Museum Education and Tour Coordinator of the Oberlin Heritage Center, placed...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 20, 2014 | History Highlights
(Part Three of a Three-Part Holiday blog series) by Melissa Clifford, 2014 Kent State MLIS graduate student While scouring through the oral history transcripts, I have stumbled across quite a few stories about Christmas in Oberlin’s past. To me, Christmas has...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 15, 2014 | History Highlights
(Part Two of a Three-Part Holiday blog series) by Melissa Clifford, 2014 Kent State MLIS Museum Studies graduate student *Please note that all icons are actually links to sound files so that you can hear our Oral History interviewees tell their own stories!* I’ve...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Oct 29, 2014 | History Highlights
(Part One of a Three-Part Holiday blog series) by Melissa Clifford, 2014 Kent State MLIS Museum Studies graduate student *Please note that all icons are actually links to sound files so that you can hear our Oral History interviewees tell their own stories!*...
