The time of Jim Crow is remembered in filmclips of police beatings, and photos of "colored only" water fountains. It still echoes in the slow unfinished task of erasing old laws created to ensure racial segregation. But it's a history so recent that the voices and memories of those who lived it can still be captured. An oral history project at Duke University is doing just that. For ten years, historians there have recorded the voices of blacks all over the South who lived through the time when segregation was enforced by law, intimidation, and violence. The project is a living record laid down by hundreds of African-Americans - for many, their first chance to enter the annals of history. Personal stories, political battles and the continuing fight against racial prejudice.
