Tales Told Out of School: The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral History Project

The Ball State University African-American Alumni Oral History Project, Spring semester 2017. An emmersive learning course focused on documenting the experiences of black alumni over the past seven decades. Twenty-two alumni were interviewed by ten Ball State University students.

The Ball State University African American Alumni Oral Histories collection provides online access to 42 interviews conducted with African Americans who attended or worked at Ball State University between 1950 and 2017 regarding their lives, careers, and college or graduate school experiences. Interviews were conducted and recorded by Ball State University Honors College and Public History Program students enrolled in the Oral History Workshop immersive learning courses during the spring of 2015 and 2017 under the direction of Dr. Michael Doyle, Director of Public History Program and Associate Professor in the Ball State University Department of History.