During various phases of the project students provide feedback about their experiences as oral historians. What follows are some of those comments. This project would be just another research paper without the interview. Nothing can teach a person more about a period than through the words of someone who lived it.
Oral history is one of the most interesting ways to learn about the past.
This oral history project changed the way I view the events that we study about all year. Without this project, upon studying the Little Rock 9, it would have just been one event out of many, something to learn for a test. However,with this project, history came to life for me. One day I was reading in a library about a seventeen year old named Ernest Green who integrated Central High school forty years ago, and the next day I was sitting in his office, asking him questions. One of the most exciting parts of the project is when interviewees share their feelings about being the subject of an oral history project.