Balderson, Laura-Michal

Scope and Contents From the Series: Founded in 1993 by Lucia (Cinder) Stanton, senior historian emeritus at Monticello; Dianne Swann-Wright, former director of African American special programs at Monticello; and Beverly Gray, historian and project consultant, the Getting Word African American Oral History Project is the largest plantation-specific oral history project to date. Over the years, their work preserved and illuminated the stories of the people whose lives and achievements were not only pivotal to life at...