Announcement of update of After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor

["danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@LOC.GOV>]

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D Day Release of Updated Pearl Harbor Audio Presentation

On June 6, the 59th anniversary of the D Day invasion, a new version of the
American Memory presentation After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street"
Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor will be released.  The
updated presentation includes a revised homepage, a "Related Resources"
section, several new photographs of interviewers along with other changes
designed to improve web site navigation.

The presentation was created by the American Folklife Center in the Library
of Congress. The address is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml.

The Pearl Harbor interviews were part of the Radio Research Project of the
Library of Congress, which was initiated by Librarian Archibald MacLeish in
1941 as an experimental project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to
produce "popular education" radio programming related to local, regional,
and national history, traditions, and lore in America. The aim was to
prevent fascism from taking root in the United States during a time when
democracies throughout Europe were under siege.

In mid-1941, the project's team of writers, researchers, and recording
engineers began to move out into local communities to interview and record
the speech, music and songs of ordinary Americans from all parts of the
country, describing their lives, singing their songs, and telling their
stories.

On Dec. 8, 1941, with the Radio Research Project already underway, Alan
Lomax, head of the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Song, sent
a telegram to folklorists in 10 different localities around the United
States, asking them to collect "man-on-the-street" reactions to the bombing
of Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war by the United States. The
resulting collection, approximately 12 hours of recorded comments, includes
a diversity of opinion concerning the war and other social and political
issues of the day, such as racial prejudice and labor disputes. It
constitutes a portrait of everyday life in America as the United States
entered World War II.

Included in the "After the Day of Infamy" presentation is an essay on
making and maintaining the original recordings. The presentation was
created in collaboration with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute,
Hyde Park, New York, and the New Deal Network.

The American Folklife Center was created by Congress in 1976 and placed at
the Library of Congress to "preserve and present American folklife" through
programs of research, documentation, archival presentation, reference
service, live performance, exhibition, public programs and training. The
center includes the Archive of Folk Culture, which was established in 1928
and is now one of the largest collections of ethnographic material from the
United States and around the world.

Please direct any questions to <http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html>

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