About
Make Things Right for Humanity was my winning entry for the Sonic South audio competition, hosted by the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) at the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of the American South. The task was to create a three-minute audio project incorporating archival oral histories from the SOHP’s archives. In the piece, Dr. Andrew Best, an African American physician, recounts the story of coming upon a highway accident and saving a patrolman’s life in the early 1950s and his subsequent interaction with a white shop clerk immediately after the incident. Original music by Pennee Miles (my collaboration with Barnabas Poffley).
A public listening event of the audio projects, with panel discussion and Q&A, was held at the Chapel Hill Public Library on May 9, 2019. WUNC’s The State of Things program also did a radio segment on the 2019 competition.
Citations for Make Things Right for Humanity (audio project):
Interview with Dr. Andrew Best by Karen Kruse Thomas, 19 April 1997 (R-0011), in the Southern
Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Interview with Dr. Salter Cochran and Doris Cochran by Karen Kruse Thomas, 12 April 1997 (R-
0014), in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection,
Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Interview with Dr. James Slade and Catherine Slade by Karen Kruse Thomas, 23 February 1997 (R-
0019), in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection,
Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.