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StoryCorps Griot is a one-year initiative, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to collect interviews from at least 1,750 African Americans. Now through February 28, 2008, the StoryCorps Griot Initiative will travel to locations across the nation to record and distribute the stories of 1,750 African Americans, with special emphasis on the stories of World War II veterans and men and women involved in the Civil Rights struggle.


StoryCorps: Helen Freeman

Helen Freeman shares her love story, set in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.
StoryCorps: Barbara Lawrence

From our Story Corps Griot Initiative, Barbara Lawrence talks about her husband, the country’s first African-American astronaut.
StoryCorps: Gladys Beard

We share a story from Chicago’s StoryCorps Griot Mobile Booth. South Holland resident Gladys Beard has just returned to the Chicago area and is disappointed by the segregation of neighborhoods she sees.
StoryCorps: Judy Jackson Thomas

From the StoryCorps Griot Initiative, Judy Jackson Thomas speaks about equality in the workplace.
StoryCorps: Marcus Johnson

From the StoryCorps MobileBooth, we meet Chicagoan Marcus Robinson who speaks about his mother, a Civil Rights activist.