StoryCorps: Recording the Lives and Stories of Everyday Americans
StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate the lives of everyday Americans by listening to their stories. Episodes show a candid, unscripted conversation between two people about what's really important in life: love, loss, family, friendship... and everything else in between. Since 2003, StoryCorps has built the largest collection of human voices ever archived, including conversations from Alabama. Alabama Public Radio hosted the Airstream portable studio in Mobile in 2017 and 2023. Those recordings and others from across the country are kept at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
StoryCorps recently traveled to Selma to record, preserve, and share conversations from the community. The excerpts below were selected and produced by Alabama Public Radio. Stories previously shared in Mobile can be found here.
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This week on StoryCorps, Veteran Jeanne Charbonneau continues her story on how she and her son persevered through a seemingly impossible situation. -
This week on StoryCorps, we hear Veteran Jeanne Charbonneau's terrifying story of giving birth on a Turkish army base, and the challenges that ensued.
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This week on StoryCorps, Susan Youngblood tells the story of her career as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse. She begins with her graduation from paralegal school in Nashville and then tells how she went on to establish the SABRA sanctuary to protect victims here in Alabama. -
This week on StoryCorps, Donald Prater speaks with Linda Derry about her incredible career as an archeologist, and her experiences navigating through a male dominated field. -
This week on StoryCorps, Johnathon Matthews talks with Peggy and Clete Verhoff about the devastating floods from the Cahawba river and the resilience of the community that followed. -
This week on StoryCorps, Annie Pearl Avery is back to talk about a dangerous encounter she had when she and her friends got lost on the way home from a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee conference in Georgia. -
This week on StoryCorps, Annie Pearl Avery tells the story of her experience on Bloody Sunday, when she and her fellow civil rights protestors attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7th, 1965. -
This week on StoryCorps, Amy Nadal interviews Sadie Moss about her experience on Bloody Sunday and her fight for her voting rights. -
This week on StoryCorps, Tasha Dangerfield speaks with her friend Marla Moore about what brought her to Selma, and the incredible support group she found when she needed it most. -
This week on StoryCorps, Tres and Helene Taylor return to tell the story of the community mural they organized in Selma, Alabama and how they used the power of art to bring people together.
