Episode 3 - Community

Authors

Erik Ware, University of South Alabama
Ayana Thompson, University of South Alabama
Ashley McPhillips, University of South Alabama
Areshio Walker, University of South Alabama

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Description

This third episode in the series focuses on the ways that oral history narrators described the sense of community Down the Bay, and the institutions and practices that generated and maintained that sense of community. The students engage with these stories by sharing some of their own reflections about their own communities.

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 | Oral History | Public History | United States History

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Ware, Erik; Thompson, Ayana; McPhillips, Ashley; and Walker, Areshio, "Episode 3 - Community" (2025). Down the Bay Student Podcast. 4.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/dtb_oral_hist-podcast/4