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, Warren Billy Young joins StoryCorps and shares what it was like to grow up in Selma during a time of flourishing and integration. -
This week on StoryCorps, Beth Spivey returns to tell stories about the children in her family and her methods for teaching them right from wrong. -
This week on StoryCorps, Marianne Tidmore Wofford and Anne Tidmore discuss the success of their flag distribution business in some of America's darkest hours, and how they fought to help Americans express their patriotism. -
This week on StoryCorps, Jai'Lynn Witherspoon and Johnathan Tarver discuss the most influential people in their lives and how love from those people have helped them persevere through life's challenges. -
This week on StoryCorps, Brittney Dabney is interviewed by Joan Cordova Rodriguez about her father and the memories she has of him from her childhood. -
The Links Incorporated is a non-profit volunteer service organization committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the cultural and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African descent. This Week on StoryCorps, Loudell Bryant tells the story of how she first heard of the Links and the reasons she chose to launch a chapter in Selma, Alabama. -
This week on StoryCorps, Doris Cox and Margaret Broadnax discuss their experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, as well as how many problems of the past continue to linger today. -
This week on StoryCorps, Snookie Parish and Michael Lewis remember their childhood in the Mill Village in the midst of segregation and integration, and how blissfully unaware they were of the societal problems that surrounded them. -
This week on StoryCorps, we return with Ty Cramer and Steve Romein as they discuss how Common Power branched out towards Selma, Alabama and the significance it has for education and voting rights. -
This week on StoryCorps, Ty Cramer and her spouse Steve Romein discuss their early involvement with the organization called Common Power and how it has impacted their careers and lives.
