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This episode is the introduction to this podcast series. In it, students introduce the listener to Down the Bay as they have come to know and understand it, and discuss some of the oral history interview clips that helped them to get an overall sense of the community's history.
What Happened Down the Bay? is a podcast created by University of South Alabama students in summer 2025, through the Jean O’Connor-Snyder Internship Program (JOIP) funded by the David Mathews Center for Public Life. Down the Bay is a historic Black neighborhood south of downtown Mobile, Alabama, and this podcast explores the history of Down the Bay as community members have related it through oral history interviews. In preparation for the internship, students participated in an oral history seminar with Drs. Ryan Morini and David Messenger, working with interviews from the Down the Bay Oral History Project collection at the McCall Library before meeting with elders from the community and recording new interviews for the collection. The podcast combines clips from the archived interviews with students’ reflections on how their own home communities and experiences relate to those that people describe from Down the Bay.
Publication Date
2025
Disciplines
African American Studies | Folklore | Oral History | Public History | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social History | United States History
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Recommended Citation
Smith, Kiara; McPhillips, Ashley; Thompson, Ayana; Blake, McKenzie; Walker, Areshio; and Ware, Erik, "Episode 1 - Introduction" (2025). Down the Bay Student Podcast. 2.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/dtb_oral_hist-podcast/2