Historical & Fact-Based Stories - Videos & Podcasts
Fact-based and Historical Stories from the I’m Telling podcast produced by the SMCC Storytelling Institute.
Beth Horner: Parts one and two of “The Silver Spurs: A True Story of the American Civil War.”
The Civil Rights Movement on Race Bridges Studio Site: Included are personal stories, fact-based stories, and stories that combine the personal and the historical. Links include the story, resources, themes, discussion questions and a full transcript.
Susan O’Halloran, “City of Hope.” In 2011, Susan O’Halloran meets a group of young people at an Occupy Chicago demonstration who are unaware of activists’ movements in the past that occupied public lands. She shares with them the story of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.
Susan O’Halloran, “Dr. King Came to Town.” It was August 12th, 1966 and Dr. Martin Luther King was marching through Susan O’Halloran’s south Chicago neighborhood. At the same time, the KKK heard the news and arrived in the same neighborhood, splitting it into two.
Elizabeth Ellis, “Mary McCloud Bethune.” In this excerpt from a longer story, Elizabeth tells of the time Mary McLeod Bethune faced down the Ku Klux Klan to provide education for African American girls.
Linda Gorham, “Rosa.” Linda Gorham tells the story of Rosa Park's 1955 stand against racial injustice through: Claudette Colvin (a 15-year-old who nine months earlier refused to give up her bus seat), James Blake (the bus driver), and Rosa Parks herself.
Mary Gay Ducey, “The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Ducey’s tour-de-force of harrowing historical storytelling. The heartbreak is in the exquisite details.
Beth Horner: Parts one and two of “The Silver Spurs: A True Story of the American Civil War.”
The Civil Rights Movement on Race Bridges Studio Site: Included are personal stories, fact-based stories, and stories that combine the personal and the historical. Links include the story, resources, themes, discussion questions and a full transcript.
Susan O’Halloran, “City of Hope.” In 2011, Susan O’Halloran meets a group of young people at an Occupy Chicago demonstration who are unaware of activists’ movements in the past that occupied public lands. She shares with them the story of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.
Susan O’Halloran, “Dr. King Came to Town.” It was August 12th, 1966 and Dr. Martin Luther King was marching through Susan O’Halloran’s south Chicago neighborhood. At the same time, the KKK heard the news and arrived in the same neighborhood, splitting it into two.
Elizabeth Ellis, “Mary McCloud Bethune.” In this excerpt from a longer story, Elizabeth tells of the time Mary McLeod Bethune faced down the Ku Klux Klan to provide education for African American girls.
Linda Gorham, “Rosa.” Linda Gorham tells the story of Rosa Park's 1955 stand against racial injustice through: Claudette Colvin (a 15-year-old who nine months earlier refused to give up her bus seat), James Blake (the bus driver), and Rosa Parks herself.
Mary Gay Ducey, “The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.” Ducey’s tour-de-force of harrowing historical storytelling. The heartbreak is in the exquisite details.