Preliminary Information
Notes on accessibility were compiled by Aaliyah Berryman and Sarah Brown.
The Women’s Center
The Women’s Center stop was recorded by Sarah Brown in 2020 and 2021. It features the voices and ideas of Associate Director Njoki Kamau and the Director form 2017-2021, Sekile Nzinga.
The Deering Library & Deering Meadow
The interview with Special Collections Librarian Jason Nargis was conducted by Sarah Brown in 2021.
Information on the building was drawn from the Library’s website.
The Deering Meadow stop is narrated by Sarah Brown.
Archival audio clips of Eva Jefferson from the 1970 strike are drawn from the WNUR Audiotape Recordings Collection, WNUR Audiotape Recordings, 76/20/1. Northwestern University Archives. https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/6/resources/1515 Accessed May 24, 2021. They have been edited for clarity and sound quality.
These clips were provided with the assistance of Charla Wilson, University Archivist for the Black Experience.
The history of the 1970 strike quotes directly from Curtis Lawrence’s “Flashback 1970” for the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
The photograph of Eva Jefferson addressing the crowd on the meadow in 1970 appears in the They Demanded Courageously exhibit created by Charla Wilson in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Bursar’s Takeover.
Information on Eva Jefferson Paterson’s later life and career were drawn from the They Demanded Courageously profile and from Eva Paterson’s bio on the Equal Justice Society site.
The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center
Matt Abtahi and Gabriel Guzman were recorded in a joint interview with Sarah Brown in 2021.
The Bursar’s Office
Kathryn Ogletree was invited back to campus as part of the Women’s Center’s 30th anniversary and the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover in 2018. Audio sampled in this tour is taken from the speech she gave that March and has been edited for length and clarity.
The full video of this event is available through the library and the women’s center.
Hobart House / The Women’s Residential College
Eleanor Ellis and Andrene Wright were recorded in separate interviews with Sarah Brown in 2021.
The history of Emily Hatfield Hobart comes from Northwestern: A History by Jay Pridmore.
Throughout
The sounds that underscores auditory transItions throughout the stops is titled Ambient Echo and was shared to Free Sound under a public domain creative commons license.
Unless otherwise noted, narration is provided by Sarah Brown
Interviews were conducted over Zoom and edited in Adobe Premier Pro.