Mission:
To create an oral history of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and explore the contribution of video to the scholarly and practice of oral history.

Background:
The Carnegie Corporation of New York Oral History Project began in 1966 and was completed in 1999. Phase One of the project (1966-1974) resulted in 479 hours of interviews and 9,948 pages of transcript covering Carnegie Corporation's evolution over the first fifty-eight years of its existence. Phase Two, begun in 1996, traces the continuity of many of these programs from 1966 to 1997 as well as the corporation's expansion into global funding strategies in the areas of peace, scientific research, and international cooperation. The project's multimedia Web site was created by Columbia University's Oral History Research Office (OHRO), in partnership with its Libraries Digital Program Division and Digital Knowledge Ventures.

Outstanding Web Features:
The Web site features nearly forty hours of interviews with twenty-one former Carnegie Corporation officers, staff, trustees, and grantees, including former President Jimmy Carter; Joan Ganz Cooney, who helped create Sesame Street; and former Carnegie Corporation president Alan J. Pifer. A central focus of the site is the corporation's work in South Africa, where it funded legal reform and research into black poverty during the decades of apartheid. In related interviews, grant recipients who carried out the research and fought apartheid in the courts detail their experiences and the importance of 's contributions during that time. In addition to interviews, text, and photographs related to the corporation's century-long presence in South Africa, the site features a documentary, Voices of South Africa, which includes an interview with former Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/
oral_hist/carnegie/