Oral History Interview with Kitty Oliver
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Title:
Oral History Interview with Kitty Oliver
Creator:
Oliver, Kitty ( Narrator )
George, Emmanuel ( Interviewer )
Publisher:
African American Research Library and Cultural Center
Publication Date:
Language:
English
Physical Description:
00:19:33

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Abstract:
Emmanuel George interviews Dr. Kitty Oliver on June 30, 2022 at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center. Dr. Eloise “Kitty” Delores Leeks Oliver was born on December 16, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Oliver describes her childhood during segregation. She attended college at the University of Florida and studied English. During college, she met her husband Ricky Oliver and together they started a folk-rock musical group. In 1971, Kitty Oliver worked as a reporter and columnist for the Miami Herald in Miami, Florida. She chronicled the history of the Black community in South Florida, including Provident Hospital, Dr. Von Mizell and Dr. James Sistrunk, Eula Johnson, and Samuel Morrison. Dr. Oliver left the Miami Herald in 1990 to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Florida International University. She began the Race and Change Oral History Project, collecting oral histories of minority groups in Hollywood, Florida. She donated her collection of 125 interviews to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center in 2004. Dr. Oliver brought students from Florida Atlantic University to the African American Research Library and Cultural Center to perform research using materials from Special Collections. Additionally, she taught workshops about oral histories to the community.
Funding:
This content is part of a Mellon Foundation-funded project coordinated by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) at FIU and eight community partner institutions titled "Community Data Curation: Preserving, Creating, and Narrating Everyday Stories."

Record Information

Source Institution:
African American Research Library and Cultural Center
Holding Location:
African American Research Library and Cultural Center
Rights Management:
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Resource Identifier:
FI14105019

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