Maia Hill interviews former students for “Black Student Alumni at Penn State Oral History Project”

October 13, 2020

Several of the participants in the “Black Student Alumni at Penn State Oral History Project” gathered at University Park for a group video interview by researcher Maia Hill (BA Lib 2020). The project consists of approximately hour-long Zoom interviews with 13 Black alumni from the late 1960s and early 1970s as well as a group interview. Hill said she wanted to cover this period because of the number of protests around the Vietnam War, Black representation in the student body, and curriculum related to Black heritage. The video interviews can be accessed at https://sites.psu.edu/blackstudenthistories/.