Audio Recordings - Digital Files
The oral history interviews conducted by John Behee between 1968 and 1974 cover a period from 1922 (William DeHart Hubbard) to 1972 (Godfrey Murray). They follow a fairly consistent pattern of questions and topics:
- motivation and circumstances that brought the athlete to Michigan
- high school experience and honors
- athletic experience / accomplishments at U-M
- relations with coaches and fellow players
- any particular experience of discrimination or prejudice, in particular with regard to lodging and travel
- any notable positive experience with coaches, teammates or others
- election of Blacks as team captains
- campus social life, including fraternities and interracial dating
- housing discrimination in Ann Arbor
- educational and work experience
- response to the Black Action Movement BAM and the larger civil rights movement.
The interviews range from ca. 40-minutes to ca. 80 minutes in length. They are listed chronologically by date of the athletes U-M career. The sound level on some recordings is fairly low and you many need to raise the volume on your speaker.