The following oral history interviews are available at the University of Louisville Oral History Center, in the University of Louisville Archives and Records Center (UARC). They may all be accessed on-site in the Archives. For information on visiting UARC, see our Planning a Visit page. If you would like to order a copy (CD, audiocassette tape, or, when available, a transcript), please contact Carrie Daniels, co-director of the Oral History Center by email, or by telephone (502-852-6674). For information on pricing, see our Obtaining Copies page. A few transcripts are available online; you may access those transcripts directly via a link in the entry for the interview.
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| Interviewee | Date | Interview Number(s) | Summary information | Transcript? | Interviewer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8th Grade, St. Joseph's Catholic School | 6/18/1984 | 1986-39 | Butchertown History. | No | n/a | 60 min. |
| Abner, Ray | 11/3/1980 | 1980-6, 1980-7 | Ray Abner is a retired General Chairman of the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers (IBF&O). A more detailed summary of this interview is available on the L&N Oral History page. | Yes | Bobo, Mary | 120 min. |
| Abney, Rosalie | 6/23/1998 | 2002-2-1 | Ms. Abney recounts her experiences working on airplanes at Curtiss-Wright, including the training she received at Ahrens Trade School. | Yes | Harmon, Shirley | |
| Aboud, Jaledah | 5/29/1975 & 6/1/1975 | 259 | Lebanese immigration to Louisville, Kentucky. | Yes | Eversole, Douglas | 60 min. |
| Abraham, Leonard | 4/29/1992 | 1992-102-1 | Jewish Community interviews | No | Bronner, Betty | 60 min. |
| Abramson, Jerry | 12/3/1976 | 190 | Mr. Abramson was the 3rd Ward Alderman from 1975 to 1977. This interview covers the reorganization of Louisville's city government. | Yes | Staiger, Charles | 60 min. |
| Abstain, Adlene | 2/14/2000 | 2002-1-1, 2002-1-2 | Civil Rights movement in Louisville | Yes | K'Meyer, Tracy | 90 min. |
| Adams, Clarence with Stoner, Fred. | 12/1/1977 | 420, 421 | Adams recalls the history of the East downtown and Smoke Town Neighborhoods of Louisville, the predecessor organizations of the Presbyterian Community Center beginning in the 1910s, and the street corner newspaper sale business in Louisville beginning in the 1920s. Both men discuss their efforts toward developing a recreation program in basketball, baseball and boxing at the Presbyterian Community Center beginning in the 1930s, the association of Muhammad Ali with the Center, and administrative changes at the Center during the early 1960s. | No | Owen, Thomas | 120 min. |
| Adams, Claudetta | 4/8/1979 | 679 | Migration. | No | Ott, Dianna | 60 min. |
| Adams, Jeanie | 4/5/1978 | 678 | Migration | No | Ott, Dianna | 60 min. |
| Adams, Jo | 5/13/1977 | 317 | The first two years of merger and busing in Jefferson County. | No | Bobo, Bruce E. | 60 min. |
| Adams, Norma B. | 6/25/1993 | 1993-51-1 | Ms. Adams was interviewed in her office in Somerset, KY. Ms. Adams is engaged in a practice with family members. She graduated from the University of Kentucky law school in 1953. Ms. Adams speaks about the practice of law in a smaller town, Somerset, and about some conflicts in trying to raise a family and continue in the practice of law. | Bean, K. | 60 min. | |
| Adams, Scott | 11/25/1980 | 1981-71 | Adams discusses forces and individuals that shaped national policy as they relate to the international exchange of scientific and technical information beginning in 1945. | Leightty, V | 90 min. | |
| Aiken, Charles William | 11/21/2003 | 38018 | Veterans History Project. WWII, European Theatre | No | Joseph Ward | videotape; unknown |
| Aiken, William | 2004 | 2004-77-1 | Veterans History Project. World War II, Pacific Theater | No | Benner, Neil | videotape; unknown |
| Aikens, James (Ted) | 6/26/1905 | 2004-88-1 | Veterans History Project. World War II, Pacific Theater, European Theater, POWs, US Army | No | Morris, William | videotape; unknown |
| Akers, Dee | 2/1/1976, 4/1/1976 | 140-143 | The University of Louisville's affiliation with the state. Restriction: publication allowed only after review by donor. | No | Morison, William J. and Kris Kindelsperger. | 240 min. |
| Akers, Dee | 12/3/1981 | 1982-97 | Dr. Akers discusses the Urban Studies Center, his association with the Government Law Center, and his position as Chief Consultant for the Coaliquid Project. A partial transcription (first 15 min. of side one) is available. | partial | Leightty, Virginia | 60 min. |
| Akers, Lilialyce | 2/29/2000 | 2000-4-1 | Summers, Brenda Gunn | 90 min. | ||
| Alexander, Lloyd | 6/7/1977 | 337 | Alexander is a retired professor from Kentucky State University. He discusses his family history; his career and life in the Parkland Area of Louisville; and recounts what Parkland was like in 1952 and how he was received as one of the first blacks to move into the 2800 block of Virginia Ave. | No | Bruggman, Marsha | 28 min. |
| Allen, Willie Coleman | 1/10/1973 | 46 | Mrs. Allen discusses the history of several mills along Doe Run Creek and some of her general memories of this area. | No | Scott, Alice | 60 min. |
| Allen, David | 3/20/1984 | 1984-52 | An interview with a Green Beret on his experiences and feelings of the Vietnam War. | No | Papanikandros, Lysimahos N. | 60 min. |
| Allen, Jim | 3/16/1982 | 1983-48 | Mr. Allen discusses problems in the Old Louisville area. Interview is on side 2. | No | Green, Gary | 30 min. |
| Alleyne, Delores | 7/19/1980 | 1981-149 | Dr. Alleyne, an alumna of the University of Louisville, attended the Louisville Municipal College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Louisville Medical School. This is a recording of a speech by Dr. Alleyne at a school; she discusses why LMC graduates are attracted from all parts of the country to attend reunions. | 30 min. | ||
| Allgeier, Irene R. | 8/21/1987 | 1987-65 | The narrator was born and raised in the Camp Taylor area. Born Irene Beckman , her family had a truck garden on Bickel (now Durrett) Lane. They were evicted when the land was purchased for Camp Zachary Taylor neighborhood. | No | Holmberg, James J. | 45 min. |
| Allgeier, Mary M. | 8/29/1987 | 1987-69 | The narrator was born and raised on a farm on Illinois Avenue. Her family had to move when Camp Zachary Taylor was constructed. She has resided in the Camp Taylor area her whole life. | No | Holmberg, James J. | 45 min. |
| Allison, Bill | 9/21/2001 | 2002-1-3 | Civil Rights movement in Louisville | Yes | K'Meyer, Tracy | 60 min. |
| Alston, E. Deedom | 6/9/1978 | 459 | Alston discusses his early life in Norfolk, Virginia, his primary and secondary education there; his college education at the North Carolina College for Negroes; his seminary training at Bishop Payne Divinity School; his ordination in the Episcopal Church; his ministry at Louisville's Our Merciful Savior Church, 11th and Walnut Street; work in race relations in Louisville; and general remarks on the role of the church in society. | Yes | Chumbley, Kenneth | 60 min. |
| Altman, Henry M., Jr. | 5/11/1989 | 1990-122-1 | Financial advisor for Theatre Louisville, 1963-1964; Treasurer of merged ATL, 1964-1969; ATL Board Member, 1980-81; presently C.P.A. in Louisville. Altman's interview covers the years 1963-69. | Yes | Ward, Teka | 55 min. |
| Altman, Henry M., Jr. | 7/10/1987 | 1990-122-2 | Actors' Theatre - this tape may be blank | Ward, Teka | 60 min. | |
| Altsheler, Yancey | 11/30/1972 | 38A, 38B | Altsheler, a former trustee of the University of Louisville, discusses his lifelong interest in education and the advancements made in Louisville in his lifetime. | Yes | Ryant, Carl | 120 min. |
| Amin, Sima | 3/18/2000 | 2000-1-1 | Refugee interview series (Iran) | Cummins, Peggy | 60 min. | |
| Amos, Nancy | 11/16/1988 | 1989-29-53 | Narrator, manager of the Crescent Hill Branch, talks about Louisville public libraries. | No | Miller, Barbara | 50 min. |
| Anderson, Dan | 11/24/1997 | 2000-6-1 through 2000-6-2 | Deindustrialization in Louisville | Hart, Joy | 120 min. | |
| Anderson, Dan | 11/27/1997 | 2000-6-3 through 2000-6-4 | Deindustrialization in Louisville | K'Meyer, Tracy | 90 min. | |
| Anderson, Felix | 10/19/1978 | 657, 658 | A retired bishop of the AME Zion Church, Rev. Felix Anderson discusses his childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina, and Boston, Mass.; his childhood and college education at Livingston College, an AME Zion school in Wilmington, from which he graduated in 1920; seminary training at Hood Theological School and Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; various pastorates and teaching experiences; coming to Louisville in 1948 as pastor of Broadway Temple AME Zion; entering local politics and his election to the Kentucky General Assembly, where he served from 1954 to 1960; and recollections of civil rights work in Alabama during the 1960s. | Yes | Chumbley, Kenneth | 120 min. |
| Anderson, Mrs. Dwight | 5/18/1977 | 35 | University of Louisville School of Music. | No | Whitney, Robert | 60 min. |
| Anger, Loretta M. | 10/13/1980 & 10/15/1980 | 1981-13, 1981-14, 1981-15, 1981-16, 1981-17 | Family history in Louisville, Kentucky. Locations mentioned included Gray Street and Holy Spirit Church. Additional information and photographs in the file. | No | Callan, Virginia R. | 300 min. |
| Ansback, Joey | 10/8/1980 | 1981-4 | Ansback deals with the changes that she has experienced that relate to Jefferson County, Kentucky, schools before and after busing. Items such as teacher attitudes, disciplines, academic achievement, and the PTA organization. | Yes | Pfisterer, Ruthe | 60 min. |
| Antonini, Anna M. | 3/29/1983 | 1983-12 | Mrs. Antonini discusses her family's life during the Great Depression. | Yes | Hollis, Lynn | 60 min. |
| Armstrong, David | Various | 1999-2-1 through 1999-2-21 [OTHERS IN 2003?] | Interview with former mayor of Louisville David Armstrong, conducted March 2001-March 2003. See also OH project 1999-002. Restricted through 12/31/2008. | No | Kramer, Carl E. | 1170 min. |
| Arsenovic, Tatiana | 12/23/1999 | 2000-1-2 | Refugee interview series | Cummins, Peggy | 60 min. | |
| Arterberry, Mary Jo | 4/4/1993 | 1993-51-2 | Ms. Arterberry graduated from law school in 1949. She served as an administrative law judge for the federal government in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Knoxville, Tennessee at the time of her interview. Ms. Arterberry served in different positions for the state of Kentucky for many years before taking her job with the Department of Health and Human Services. | Bean, Kathleen | 60 min. | |
| Ashby, Everylee | 11/24/1998 | 2002-2-2, 2002-2-3 | Ms. Ashby discusses her employment, primarily with High Rock Bottling, DuPont and Reynolds, during the war. Ms. Ashby was one of the first two black women hired at the DuPont plant; she also describes an integrated workplace at Reynolds. | Yes | Harmon, Shirley | |
| Assef, D. with Ashey, Wada and Assef, E. | 5/7/1975 | 260 | Lebanese immigration to Louisville, Kentucky. | No | Eversole, Douglas | 60 min. |
| Aubespin, Mervin | 9/14/1999 | 2002-1-4, 2002-1-5 | Civil Rights movement in Louisville | Yes | K'Meyer, Tracy | 120 min. |
| Auerbach, Minx | 3/19/1979 | 859 | Ms. Auerbach, a local government administrator and social activist discusses the attitude of women in office on the women's rights issue. Restrictions: none. | Yes | Marshall, Linda | 60 min. |
| Ault, Robert | 13/13/1975 | 92 | Personal history and an account of the growth of the art therapy movement. | No | Spiers, Barbara | 60 min. |
| Axman, Urban | 6/15/1977 | 346 | Mr. Axman is a 50 year old white man, who was a long time resident of the Parkland Area (1927-1959). He grew up in the first graduation class of Flaget High School in 1945. He discusses his family history boyhood years and remembrances of the Parkland Area. | No | Bruggman, Marsha | 25 min. |
| Axton, William F. | 1/22/1981 | 1981-164 | A University of Louisville English Professor discusses his family history (Ohio County) and some of the folk songs of the region. | No | Olympia, Marilyn | 60 min. |
| Axton, William F. | 11/1/1980 | 1981-74 | Dr. Axton focused on tobacco during the Depression years. He gives background on the tobacco industry in Kentucky and discusses the sale of tobacco and cigarettes during these years. | No | Callen, Virginia | 60 min. |