Sabrina's Internship at RICHES

          This week working on my internship at RICHES, I have continued working on my oral history transcription. The transcription process is quite interesting and I am learning a lot from doing it. I have never had any experience with oral history transcription before this. This past spring semester in Introduction to Public History, our class final project was to work with histories from the Veterans Legacy Project. However, due to the outbreak of COVID-19 we were unable to meet in person for our group final project. So our final project was cut. This was for the most part the only exposure I have had to anything oral history related previously. I am finding that I have to go over parts of it multiple times to make sure I get everything. It is sometimes hard to understand everything because sometimes the person being interviewed laughs while she is speaking, which makes it slightly difficult to understand what she is saying.  It is really interesting that you record noises in the b

           This week working on my internship at RICHES, I started working on my oral history transcription of Sandy Cawthern’s oral history interview. I watched the entire oral history interview; as a result, I got a better understanding of how to transcribe the interview. The information Dr. Lester and Geoff had given Anna and I, regarding how to properly transcribe oral history interviews, has helped a great deal in my understanding since I have never had the opportunity to transcribe an oral history before.  This week, I also have been working on getting permission to send the finding aid I created for the UCF Special Collections and University Archives to Dr. Lester and the rest of the team working on the Bending Towards Justice Project and Exhibit so they can find useful information in the “Carol Mundy Research Files” that might be pertinent to the exhibit. Such information might include information on July Perry or other information on the city of Ocoee and its residents. I am s

           Over the last two weeks at my internship with RICHES, we continued to work on the Bending Towards Justice Exhibit. Last week, we did not have a blog post due because it was a national holiday for the 4 th  of July. We all continued on our work for the internship and exhibit though. I had been in correspondence with Dr. Lester about the maps for the court cases. We will use maps that Amy is working on to put on the website for the digital exhibit and attach bios about the court cases on voter suppression and voting rights. We will address this again at the beginning of the next week when Kirk is back to see how to proceed next. When I met with Dr. Gordon this week for my independent studies course I am taking with her, we talked about seeing if someone like Kirk, who is better versed in these digital tools, could perhaps get the little pin drops and timeline done quicker since the deadline and opening of the exhibit is coming up rather quickly.  I also found a list with descr