Civil Rights in Black and Brown collects, interprets, and disseminates oral history interviews of the African American and Chicanx liberation struggles in Texas. Based at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project examines simultaneously the civil rights struggles of both African Americans and Mexican Americans in the state of Texas. While mo
st research on American race relations have used a binary analytical lens --either “black” versus “white” or “Anglo” versus “Mexican,”--CRBB collects, interprets, and disseminates new oral history interviews with members from all three groups. The site features a publicly accessible, free, and user-friendly multimedia digital humanities website that provides digital video clips from the interviews to researchers as well as teachers, journalists, and the general public. Rather than simply streaming full interviews or displaying transcripts, this interview database indexes short clips and embeds a number of thematic metadata codes and tags. End users are able to easily search for detailed subject information across the entire interview collection and add their own tags to help future users.
