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The SPOHP Podcast
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Welcome to the SPOHP Podcast! Presented by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida, this podcast will feature different series showcasing a variety of oral history interviews in our archive. Stay tuned! Oral history students at the University of Florida create podcasts from the vast collections at SPOHP. They explore African American history, politicians, midwives, fisherfolk, civil rights veterans, health care workers, farmworkers, and our newest, the Pandemic Oral History Project and Catholic Institutions of North Central Florida.
Episodes
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The Saltwater Underground Railroad
In this episode of the SPOHPcast, Underground Railroad Oral History Project Coordinator Donovan Carter returns to showcase the Saltwater Underground Railroad, or the Southward route to freedom through Florida and into the Caribbean. Highlighted interviews include URP 013 Tina Dunkley:...
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Underground Railroad Oral History Project: The Network to Freedom
In this episode of the SPOHPcast, Donovan Carter and Lauren Manso share their thoughts on two interviews from the Underground Railroad Oral History Project. Donovan and Lauren share excerpts from interviews with narrators Bob Seeley and Kimberly Simmons. The Full Interviews for Bob Seeley…
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Sitting down with Adreanne Martinez- UF’s legacy of slavery and sinking BIPOC enrollment
On episode two of the Challenging Racism SPOHPcast, we talk with Adreanne Martinez about UF’s legacy of slavery, indigenous land dispossession, and incarcerated labor. Adreanne is a proud double Gator and a vehement student activist. On this episode we talk about the activism that led to an...
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Challenging Racism at UF
This episode will examine how the University of Florida has challenged racism. The goal of this podcast series is to bring awareness to UF’s History and shine a light on the legacy of exclusion and racism on and around UF campus. This episode discusses the hatred of the Ku Klux Klan and the...
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FWAF EP13s1 Marvelous Rodgers: Migrant Child
Marvelous Rodgers grew up in Winter Garden, Florida. In this podcast, she describes the pressure her father, a fruit contractor, was under to clear the fields, the help she provided her father in his work, and the distaste for oranges a life of smelling them constantly might produce. Farmworker...
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Race and Remembrance Episode #10: Final Thoughts and Hopes for the Future
In this episode, we will be discussing final thoughts and hopes for the future of race relations at the University of Florida, focusing on Black voices on campus. Thank you for joining us on this racial justice journey through the Joel Buchanan Archives (JBA collection)! Show Notes: Producers:...
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Special Episode: Machen Florida Opportunity Scholarship
In this stand-alone episode, we introduce the Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars (MFOS) Program and discuss the issues of inequity within higher education. You will hear from first-generation students who have participated in this program at UF as they discuss how MFOS has impacted them and…
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Race and Remembrance Episode #9: The Struggle for Racial Justice at UF Today
In this episode, we will be discussing the current context of racism at the University of Florida, focusing on the new initiatives aimed at addressing and amending these issues. Show Notes: Producers: Jessica Alvarez and Alana Gomez, [email protected] Credits: Thanks to SPOHP and the people...
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Race and Remembrance Episode #8: Student Experiences with Racial Discrimination at UF
In this episode, we discuss student experiences with racial discrimination at the University of Florida, focusing on the experiences of Black students in particular. We highlight interviews from some of the first Black students to attend UF, those who struggled after, and the voices of today.…
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Race and Remembrance Episode #7: Professional Discrimination at UF
In this episode, we discuss the history of professional discrimination at UF, focusing on the lived experiences and perspectives of Black faculty and staff. Show Notes: Producers: Jessica Alvarez and Alana Gomez, [email protected] Credits: Thanks to SPOHP and the people interviewed! Music…
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Race and Remembrance Episode #6: Black Thursday
In this episode, we discuss the hidden history of Black Thursday at UF and how many Black stories are left out of the narrative. Especially with no physical commemoration of the day on campus, it is important to keep the history of Black Thursday and the contribution of minority students alive in...
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Race and Remembrance Episode #5: UF History and Connection to Slavery/Racism
In this episode, we discuss the University of Florida’s connection to slavery, indigenous land, and racism. Show Notes: Producers: Jessica Alvarez and Alana Gomez, [email protected] Credits: Thanks to SPOHP and the people interviewed! Music: Moments by Shane Ivers…
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Race and Remembrance Episode #4: Integration of Alachua County Public Schools
In this episode, we discuss the history of segregation within the Alachua County Public School system, as well as the process and impacts of integration, focusing on Lincoln High School in particular. Show Notes: Producers: Jessica Alvarez and Alana Gomez, [email protected] Credits: Thanks to...
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Race and Remembrance Episode #3: North Florida Civil Rights Movement
In this episode we take a journey through the Civil Rights movement in North Florida, specifically in the cities of Tallahassee, St. Augustine, and Gainesville. Some important events we will touch on are the Tallahassee bus boycott and Florida Theatre protest in Tallahassee, the beach conflict in...
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Race and Remembrance Episode #2: Rosewood and Ocoee Massacres
In this episode of the “Race and Remembrance” podcast, we continue discussing racial terror in 20th-century Florida, focusing on the Rosewood Massacre and the Ocoee Election Day Massacre. Show Notes: Producers: Jessica Alvarez and Alana Gomez, [email protected] Content warning timestamps:...
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Race and Remembrance Episode #1: Racial Terror in 20th-Century Florida
In this episode of the “Race and Remembrance” podcast, we introduce the topic of racial terror, providing historical context and discussing violent events that occurred in 20th-century Florida, particularly the Newberry Six lynchings of 1916. Show Notes: Content warning timestamps: (7:29-8:14)…
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Race and Remembrance: Introduction
In this episode of the “Race and Remembrance” podcast, we introduce the University of Florida's Samuel Proctor Oral History program and its resources, as well as the plan for this podcast series centering on Black community voices discussing historical truths and their significance. In this...
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COA EP001 s8 "Community Action and Radio"
"Community Action and Radio" David Barsamian created Alternative Radio to cover important stories neglected by mainstream media. In this podcast, he explains why he first pursued broadcasting, and how journalism can continue to be a source of social change. Topics include Alternative Radio,...
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FWAF EP17s1 A Child of Farmworkers
Mireya Ledesma is one of eight children born to her farm laborer parents. In this podcast, she describes being looked down upon by other children for her parents’ occupations, the strange mix of shame and pride she felt in reaction, the responsibility she felt as the oldest daughter to help raise...
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WAF EP 002 s7 Womens' Activism in Gainesville
In this interview, Sallie Harrison describes the beginnings of the women’s movement in Gainesville. Starting with her work in the presidential campaign of George McGovern, who was defeat by Richard Nixon in 1972, Harrison describes the connections between the women’s movement and the civil rights...
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WAF EP 001s7 Police and Protests
A podcast created for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program's Spring 2015 Intern Class by Virginia Hamrick (SPOHP). Activist and founder of grass roots organization Cope Pink, Meada Benjamin explores the effects of police brutality on community organizing. Topics include: organizing and...
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AAHP EP 003s5 Wilhelmina Johnson: Community Leader and Educator
This episode features a 1981 interview by Joel Buchanan interviewing Wilhelmina W. Johnson, who was a civil rights activist and a leading educator in Gainesville, Florida. Mrs. Johnson passed away in 1999. Copyrighted music by Therapy Shock, Courtesy of Public Room Records, and by the UF…
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ADHP EP 001s6 Vulnerable Populations: A voice in Research.
A podcast created for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s Spring 2015 Intern Class. In this podcast, Linda Cottler discusses her research in classification of substance abuse around the world. After a successful career at Washington University at St. Louis spanning three decades, drug...
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AAHP EP 002s5 Stephan Mickle and Evelyn Marie Moore Mickle: Integrating the University of Florida
For the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program's Spring 2013 Intern Class. This podcast explores the value of diversity at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the challenges facing the first African American students who integrated to integrate the college. Edited by Emily Nyren and…
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AAHP EP001s5 World War II, An African-American Man’s Perspective
World War II, An African-American Man’s Perspective For the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program’s Fall 2014 Intern Class. Sollie Mitchell discusses his diverse roles as a clerk, soldier, trainer, and supply person in an African-American unit stationed in the Pacific. After the service, Mitchell...
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MFP EP002s2 Conquering Fear as a Civil Rights Activist
The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of hundreds of oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of the Mississippi Delta. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program has an archive of 1000s of oral histories available...
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FWAF EP018s1 Environmental Racism and the Survival of the Racial Divide
In this podcast, activist Leroy Bell argues that four landfills, a sewage treatment plant, and a medical waste treatment plant are ravaging the environment and population of Apopka, Florida, and, importantly, that there are deep ties between the placement of these environmental offenders and the...
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FWAF EP015s1 Not All Things Get Better with Time
Johanna Collins was born in Orlando, Florida but has lived in Apopka, Florida since moving there in the second grade. In this podcast, she describes her feelings of disappointment regarding the development of Apopka, as well as American society more generally. Topics include gun violence, “Stand...
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FWAF EP011s1 I Believe in Justice
Fernando Cuevas, Sr. worked as a migrant farm laborer in Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan before becoming National Vice President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in 1979. In this podcast, he speaks about his life of fighting injustice, from the time his family had to...
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CNCF Pod EP003s4 Bill and Jean Heltemes
Originally from a Minnesota small rural town, Bill and Jean Heltemes talk about their lives and how they came to St. Patricks Catholic Church in Gainesville, Florida. They talk about what it means to be a part of the church, and how that leads to feel strongly connected to the community. This...
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CNCF EP002s4 Faith and Challenge
During the Fall 2020 semester, SPOHP interns interviewed members of the Catholic community in North Central Florida, as part of the Catholic institutions of North Central Florida (CNCF) project. From the interviews they conducted, interns created podcast episodes to present the perspectives and...
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CNCF EP001s4 Faith, Education, and Culture
CNCF. Catholic Institutions of North Central Florida Podcast Series. During the Fall 2020 semester, SPOHP interns interviewed members of the Catholic community in North Central Florida, as part of the Catholic institutions of North Central Florida (CNCF) project. From the interviews they…
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FWAF EP019s1 Miguel Zelaya
Miguel Zelaya is a veteran farmworker and pesticide safety instructor for the Farmworkers Association in Apopka, Florida. In this mostly Spanish-language podcast, Zelaya discusses how his personal experiences with toxic exposure in the workplace has inspired his career in workplace education, the...
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POHP EP001s3 Gainesville's Coffee Communities and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gainesville Coffee Communities & the COVID-19 Pandemic Coffee shops serve as important social spaces within our community. However, with social distancing and other safety precautions, the COVID-19 pandemic affected many aspects of social interaction, especially in businesses serving food and...
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FWAF EP012s1 Sister Gail Grimes
Sister Gail Grimes was born in Philadelphia and joined the religious community of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur after graduating high school. In this podcast, she describes being called to service in Apopka, Florida by the Orlando bishopric, the unique organization of the Sisters’ efforts in...
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MFP EP001s2. The Struggle Continues: Fighting for Civil Rights in the 21st Century
The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of hundreds of oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of the Mississippi Delta. The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program has an archive of 1000s of oral histories available...
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FWAF EP10 Students Against Drugs and Aids (SADA)
Marie Francois came to the United States from Haiti in 1997 with her husband and a medical degree. She did not pass the American medical boards, but found a new purpose in activism and educational outreach regarding AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. In this podcast, she describes her...
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FWAF EP09 Pernicious Pesticides
Betty Dubose worked in the farms of Apopka from childhood until they closed in 1998. In this podcast, she describes the process of working with the other farmworkers and the adverse health effects she has suffered from being inundated with pesticides, including diabetes, back problems, and heart...
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FWAF EP08 Memorial Quilts
Linda Lee was born in 1952 and spent the better part of that decade and the next working on the farms of Apopka, Florida. In this podcast, she describes being caked in muck from muckstorms, the lack of drinking water on the job, being crop-dusted with pesticides while working, and a special…
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FWAF EP07 Florida Bob
In this podcast, “Florida Bob” Griffin describes his life as a farmworker from Apopka, Florida. Topics include his blind father, who was nonetheless a successful crew leader, his childhood picking beans to help support his family and purchase school clothes, and his time moving between New York…
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FWAF EP06 Barriers and Isolation
Yesica Ramirez and her family moved to the United States in 2000 with the hopes of earning enough money to build a house to return to in their home town of Michoacán, Mexico. Yesica has been in the states ever since, isolated by language barrier to her job, family, and church. In this podcast…
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FWAF EP05 Sacrifices for Education
Earma Peterson was born in Crescent City, Florida in 1930 and had 14 children and over 100 grandchildren. In this podcast, she describes her life working on the farms of Apopka, Florida in order to support her family and tells a little of the history of her grandfather, who was killed for…
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FWAF EP04 Seeing Stars from Your Bed
Geraldean Matthew worked as a migrant farmworker throughout the United States before settling in Florida and landing a job as an advocate for farmworkers’ rights. In this podcast, she discusses advocating for better housing, better wages, and healthcare for farmworkers as well as a few of the...
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FWAF EP03 Pesticides and Muck
Carol Johnson grew up in Apopka, Florida and worked in the orange groves and packinghouses from fifth grade through her college graduation. In this podcast, she discusses migrant farm work, the health issues her mother and other farmworkers suffered from prolonged exposure to pesticides, dealing...
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FWAF EP02 Dark-Thirty to Dark-Thirty
Because she and other African American children were bussed out of town for high school, Rossie Thomas’s school days ran from “‘dark-thirty’ to ‘dark-thirty’” leaving her to read tattered, hand-me-down textbooks and complete assignments by lamplight at night. In this podcast, Thomas discusses…
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FWAF EP01 Muck Farms and Orange Groves
Johnnie Mae Byers, born and raised in Apopka, Florida, was pulled out of school after the second grade to help support her family by working the muck farms and orange groves of the area. In this podcast, she discusses the harsh conditions of such work, including the physical strains of climbing,...
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FWAF EP00 Series Intro
Welcome to Farmworker Association of Florida, a SPOHP Podcast Series. SPOHP is the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Check out the SPOHP Podcast Intro episode for background info on SPOHP if you are new. As part of the 2013 summer internship course, students...
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SPOHP Podcast Intro Episode
Welcome to the SPOHP Podcast presented by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. This episode was made to give a little background info on what you can look forward to from this podcast. Thank you for listening! SPOHP, one community, many voices. This episode was...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the SPOHP Podcast! Presented by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida, this podcast will feature different series showcasing a variety of oral history interviews in our archive. Stay tuned! Oral history students at the University of Florida create podcasts from the vast collections at SPOHP. They explore African American history, politicians, midwives, fisherfolk, civil rights veterans, health care workers, farmworkers, and our newest, the Pandemic Oral History Project and Catholic Institutions of North Central Florida.
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