Voices of Rondo - Oral Histories of Saint Paul''s Historic Black Community

Kate Cavett has collected oral histories from more than two hundred men, women, elders, youth, and community members. In 1996 she cofounded Hand in Hand Productions, a nonprofit oral history organization based in Saint Paul. She was a consulting producer of Oh Freedom over Me, a documentary for American Public Radio that considers the history of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 as a challenge to address racism today.
David Vassar Taylor, professor, historian, and higher education administrator, grew up in Saint Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. Between 1974 and 1975 he was appointed director of the Minnesota Black History Project for the Minnesota Historical Society. His books include African Americans in Minnesota and Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone.

About the author

Kate Cavett has collected oral histories from more than two hundred men, women, elders, youth, and community members. In 1996 she cofounded Hand in Hand Productions, a nonprofit oral history organization based in Saint Paul. She was a consulting producer of Oh Freedom over Me, a documentary for American Public Radio that considers the history of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 as a challenge to address racism today.
David Vassar Taylor, professor, historian, and higher education administrator, grew up in Saint Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. Between 1974 and 1975 he was appointed director of the Minnesota Black History Project for the Minnesota Historical Society. His books include African Americans in Minnesota and Cap Wigington: An Architectural Legacy in Ice and Stone.

Product details

• Authors: Kate (CON) Cavett
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781517903435
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0343-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage; Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit; A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore