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- Abernathy, Labe, Jr.
- Abernethy, George Elton.
- Adams, Frank.
- Aleshire, Brenda.
- Alexander, Everett.
- Allen, James E.
- Allen, Richard R., Sr.
- Alston, Rodney Wayne.
- Anderson, Berry L.
- Anderson, M. M.
- Anderson, Vivian R.
- Arrington, Millie Coppedge.
- Arrington, Willie G.
- Askew, Leigh Ann.
- Avent, Raefield W.
- Bailey, Gladys.
- Bailey, Radford.
- Barber, Judy.
- Barnes, Carson Baker.
- Battle, Margaret White.
- Batts, Thomas A.
- Baugess, Ray.
- Bell, Paul Vernon, Jr.
- Berry, Hiawatha
- Berry, Lucenda
- Best, Alberta Singletary Dail.
- Bishop, Jean.
- Bishop, John E.
- Bobbitt, Eva Mae Fogg Hicks.
- Bolin, Juanita L.
- Boone, Gilbert Warren.
- Boone, Randolph.
- Booth, Margaret Graham.
- Bowman, Eva Penn.
- Brake, William.
- Brame Jr., R. M.
- Brantley, Bobby Dexter.
- Brantley, Brian.
- Britt, Bernice Sills.
- Brown, Anthony W.
- Brown, Dorothy Cooper.
- Brown, Dorothy Dell Cooper.
- Brown, Thurman Lee, Jr.
- Bullock, Clifton.
- Bullock, Frank Bullock, Jr.
- Bullock, Ivelia P.
- Burt, Willie Henderson.
- Burton, Hugh
- Camp, Larry.
- Campbell, George.
- Cannon, Ernestine Mann.
- Carpenter, Gertrude.
- Carter, Charles.
- Caudle, Tracy.
- Clark, Elsie.
- Clark, Lynn Gruber
- Clark, Norma.
- Clayton, Gene
- Cline, Virginia.
- Coalson, Evelyn Hyde
- Coggin, Gilbert Truxton.
- Combs, Sandra
- Cooke, Walter Cleveland.
- Corbett, Logue.
- Council, Ora.
- Cox, Janice.
- Critcher, Lawrence.
- Critcher, Lucy.
- Dancy, George Perry (Sr.)
- Dancy, Vecie.
- Daniels, Darwell Griffin.
- Daughtridge, Margaret.
- Davis, Dennis.
- Davison, Wilburt Cornell.
- Dawson, Ester Hyde
- Deal, Wayne.
- Deans, Mary Lewis.
- Deans, William Randolph.
- Deans, William Ronald, Jr.
- Deans, William Ronald.
- Deans, William Thomas.
- Deitz, Clyde J.
- Dellinger, O. K.
- Dickens, Shari Hicks.
- Dobson, Franklin Dewitt.
- Dobson, Mary.
- Dodd, Monroe
- Doiron, Sheila.
- Dooley, Tom.
- Douglas, Soloman Sr.
- Dowd, John P.
- Dowd, Kimberly L.
- Drake, Barbara F.
- Drake, John E.
- Draughn, Isabel J.
- Driver, L. D.
- Eagle, Lone.
- Elchlepp, Jane G.
- Eldridge, Ruby.
- Eller, C.B.
- Ennis Jr., William B., Jr.
- Evans, Jackie M.
- Farmer, Jack Daniel.
- Fentriss, Paralee Reid
- Ferguson, Tom.
- Finch, Daniel Rodney.
- Finely, Richard G.
- Fisher, Bobby Joe.
- Fisher, Rayeldred Sullivan.
- Foster, Curtis.
- Fowler, Fannie Fulk
- Galloway, Virginia.
- Gambil, C.C.
- Gammon, George R.
- Gardner, Edd.
- Gay, Louis Norman, Jr.
- Gay, Minnie-Jo Fisher.
- Gentry, Fannie Phillips.
- George, Bowman
- German, Eva.
- Gibson, J. Nelson, Jr.
- Gilliam, Bill
- Ginton, Elizabeth
- Glass, C.G.
- Glover, Isabel H.
- Graham, Irene Stewart
- Graham, Mary Ellen Houck
- Green, Randy T.
- Gregory, Barbara D.
- Gregory, Paul.
- Grier, W. C.
- Gulley, Atlee Barringer.
- Gupton, Myron Kesler.
- Gwyn, Arthur.
- Hardy, Bessie Simpson
- Harrell, Ledger Clark.
- Harris, Alice Mae Davis.
- Harris, Bessie.
- Harris, Jimmy O'Neal.
- Harris, Marie Davis.
- Harris, Robert D.
- Hartgrove, Pearl P.
- Hauser, Walter Jr.
- Hayes, Kathleen D.
- Hedgepeth, Barbara.
- Helms, Walter B.
- Helton, Jettie.
- Hick, Mary Lee Mills.
- Hildreth, Beth Dixon Baker.
- Hildreth, James Robert.
- Hinton, John Luther.
- Hogan, William A.
- Holbrook, B.
- Holley, Leslie Warren.
- Holtsclaw, Gwen Pheagin Sykes
- Horne, Andrew Jackson.
- Howell, Juanita Bloodworth.
- Hubbard, Fred C.
- Hughes, Corabelle Thompson.
- Humphrey, Annie Pitt Felton.
- Hunter, Ruby Tucker.
- Ishee, Jean B.
- Jackson, Hazel P. Reeves
- Jackson, Jerry.
- Jackson, Otis.
- Jackson, Pinkie [Mrs. C. Wallace Jackson]
- Janelle, Louise B.
- Jenkins, Thomas Edgar, Jr.
- Johnson, Albert.
- Johnson, Daniel L., Jr.
- Johnson, Junior.
- Johnson, Marie.
- Johnson, Terry Richard.
- Jones, Buster.
- Jones, Spencer W. Jr.
- Jones, Walter E.
- Jordan, J.F.
- Joyner, F. Belton [Dr.]
- Joyner, Victoria C.
- Khang, Shoua
- Kilby, Cranor.
- Lacy, Gertie P.
- Lambie, Lois J.
- Lamm, Ollie Ray.
- Lee, Cee
- Lee, Grace.
- Leonard, Clyde Vernon.
- Leonard, Margaret Hyde
- Lineberger, Webb.
- Long, William Redden.
- Lovette, C. O.
- Lowdermilk, William P. [Dr.]
- Lowe, Arthur C.
- Lowe, Rellin.
- Madrid, Candy.
- Manning, Billy P.
- May, Sarah Stallings.
- May, Wiley Tripp.
- Mayo, Claude.
- McAdams, Charles
- McGinnis, Lester D.
- McLean, Madge E.
- Meeks, Grady.
- Miles, Charlie.
- Mill, Andy Golds.
- Mills, Sidney Clarence.
- Milner, Luther.
- Minich, Ruth
- Minick, Ruth
- Mittman, Benjamin Franklin.
- Mittman, John.
- Monday, Will
- Moore, Hattie Evans.
- Moore, Ivey
- Moore, Ivey.
- Moore, Preston.
- Moore, Stanley Wilson.
- Morehouse, Kathleen.
- Morgan, Lena Waller.
- Morgan, William
- Morrison, Melvin.
- Moseley, Pauline
- Moseley, Wilber
- Mullen, Kenneth.
- Nichols, Dwight.
- Noel, Charlie.
- Noel, Rosa Sumler Vines Joyner.
- O'neal, Mary Elizabeth.
- Osborne, J.N.
- Palmer, Nell Thompson
- Pardue, Jeter.
- Paris, Doris Williams.
- Paris, Kermit.
- Parker, John R.
- Parker, Willie Smith.
- Parrish, Kenny.
- Parsons, Betty Neil Guy
- Parsons, Irene.
- Payne, Marlene.
- Payseur, Sue A.
- Pearce, Richard [Dr.]
- Pendleton, Dollie.
- Penny, Charles W.
- Pettiford, Thelma.
- Peyrouse, John [Dr.]
- Phillips, Lillian Bonner Archbell.
- Pippen, Albert Marion.
- Pittman, Alter Jean.
- Pope, Arnold [Rev.]
- Porter, Alan M.
- Porter, Joyce
- Powell, Joe.
- Pratt, Sallie Davis
- Pridgen, Patsy.
- Proffit, Ella.
- Pulliam, Bruce R.
- Quincy, Margret.
- Quinn, Lottie.
- Raper, Stephen W.
- Reeves, Bertha.
- Ricks, Theophilus Edward.
- Riddle, Grace Zelma Terrell
- Robertson, Elaine Smith.
- Rohrer-Walsh, Jennifer
- Safley, Michael
- Satterfield, Essie.
- Sawicki, Dan
- Schobert, Mildred Quincy.
- Scott, Adelaide L.
- Scott, Grover J.
- Scroggs, June.
- Shelton, Henry.
- Sherrod, Braxton Lee.
- Shively, Esther.
- Shumate, Rebecca Gulley.
- Sifford, Suzanne C.
- Simmons, Floyd
- Sirisena, Hasanthika.
- Sirisena, Imali.
- Skinner, Dorothy Kirkland Ward.
- Smith, Lena M.
- Spilman, Louis, Jr.
- Stallings, Julius W.
- Stanley, Al.
- Stanley, Ruby Hardy
- Stanley, William Darous.
- Stewart, Lettie Graham.
- Stott, Agnes L.
- Strickland, Garland.
- Strickland, James.
- Strickland, Jean.
- Strickland, Lealon Edward.
- Sturdivant, W. K.
- Sutton, Linda.
- Swofford, Bill.
- Sykes, Samuel
- Tabron, Gregory Carnell.
- Tabron, Magdelene Burt.
- Tatum, Mary Elizabeth Mann.
- Taylor, Janet.
- Taylor, Jerome.
- Tedder, Ernest.
- Terry, Evelyn Abrams.
- Thigpen, Hassell.
- Thompson, Annie Bell.
- Thompson, Joanne.
- Thorp, Lewis Sumner.
- Thorpe, Lewis Sumner.
- Tillman, Herbert.
- Tillman, Willie Cleo, Jr.
- Tingen, Julia Mae Harper.
- Tucker, Jesse David.
- Tucker, Mary.
- Turnage, Frederick.
- Turner, Kenneth Jerome.
- Turner, Linda A. Jones.
- Tyson, Kathryn.
- Valentine, Itimous Thaddeus, Jr.
- Van Gelder, Reba Manning.
- Van Hoose, Jay W.
- Varney, Peter.
- Vaughan, John Daniel.
- Walker, David Earl.
- Wall, Ann E.
- Ward, Josephine.
- Wass, Willard Clarence.
- Wayland, John T. (Dr.).
- Weaver, L. Stacy, Jr
- Weeks, Kenneth D.
- Welborn, Sherrill.
- Wells, Theophilus Bryan.
- Wethington, L. Elbert
- Wheeler, Celia.
- Whitaker, James Allen.
- White, Sylvester A. White, Jr.
- Whitfield, Lisa.
- Wiggs, Rita S.
- Wiley, Ann.
- Wilkins, Estelle Coppedge.
- Williams, Eunice Jones.
- Williamson, Ann Johnson.
- Wilson, R. Parker
- Wilson, Raynor Mrs.
- Winkler, J.H.
- Winslow, Edward C.
- Winstead, Debbie Batts.
- Winstead, William Richard.
- Womack, Dr. Samuel J. [Dr.]
- Woolard, Lynda Carol.
- Wright, William Franklin.
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- Forms (documents) 19
- Interviews 244
- Lectures 1
- Oral histories (literary works) 219
- Phonograph records 2
- Presentations (communicative events) 1
- Radio programs 2
- Recordings 1
- Songs (musical compositions) 1
- Sound recordings 24
- Transcriptions (documents) 1
- Transcripts 50
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