Miriam M. Maxwell family oral history collection
By: collected by Miriam M. Maxwell
Contributors: McClain, Charles Allen, 1923-; Modupe, Prince
Published: 1964
Language: eng
Subjects: Peace Corps (U.S.); Popular music; Frontier and pioneer life; Songs and music; Oral history; Anecdotes; English Folk songs; Civil rights movements; Music; Up with People (Organization); Songbooks; Protest songs; Sermons; History
Description: Collection of sound recordings with copies of a manuscript songbook and transcript of an oral history interview.  Sound recordings dated 1964-1969 include youth groups singing civil rights songs in California; the singing group Up With People performing in Enid, Oklahoma; a radio broadcast of a sermon on civil rights by Rev. C. A. McClain, Burbank, California; stories of Peace Corps workers recorded near Accra, Ghana; an oral history of Ghana by Prince Modupe; and local music in Ghana.  Maxwell interviewed her family members Gertrude Johnson, age 86, about her emigration from England and homesteading in Penticton, British Columbia. She interviewed Mary K. Anderson and Lloyd Lewis Anderson, Estherville, Iowa; and Ruby Nobel Gardner, Estherville, Iowa, on homesteading in Kansas, South Dakota, and Iowa (with partial transcript). She made tape recordings of family songs, some perfomed by her father, Stanley Dale Gardner. Collection includes a photocopy of a songbook (ca. 1900?) kept by her grandfather Omen R. Gardner.
Notes: Miriam M. Maxwell Family Oral Histories (AFC 1977/017), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

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Miriam M. Maxwell; Donation; 1977.