Washington Post: Frisch quoted on African-American oral history project

Release Date: February 8, 2007 This content is archived.

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An article in The Washington Post on the StoryCorps Griot project, a collaboration between the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's StoryCorps and the National Museum of African American History and Culture to record stories of African Americans, quotes Michael Frisch, professor of history and American studies, who said, "This kind of testimony is often missing from the official record. By and large the historic record comes out of power and privilege. We want to get into the books people who are not in the books." Go to article.

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