Transcriptions of Interviews, Crockett-Williams

Series

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute (OHI) of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. The people chosen to be interviewed were from Utah's Black, Greek, Jewish, Japanese, Mexican, Hispanic, Chinese, Ute and Italian communities; and were in most cases fifty-five years of age and older. A Caucasian group was also interviewed by the OHI to gain a perspective of ethnic and racial group interaction, but Caucasions were not included in the subsequent photograph exhibit produced by the OHI. The goal of the project was to try to determine if, how, or to what extent each minority culture had been impacted by the larger Utah culture.

This particular series of interviews with Caucasians took place from 1984 to 1988. Events recalled by the interviewees span the time period from the early 1900s to 1988. Included in this collection are the transcriptions of the interviews with corresponding cassette tapes found in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections..

Common themes within the interviews are family life, educational and work experiences, and ethnic and race relations in Utah. Of particular interest are the interviews with four past Utah governors and Stanley C. Harvey's experiences as the captain of a first aid team sent into the Carbon County Castlegate Mine after the 1922 explosion.

Dates

1984-1988

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.