Alien Soil Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark

Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark constitutes a valuable resource that has both important historical and methodological value. It contributes to scholarly discussions on the history of Newark, the Great Migration, African-American history in New Jersey, and the value of oral and community history for fostering community engagement. - Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan (Coordinator of Public History at Rutgers New Brunswick) Katie Singer has gleaned a wealth of information from extensive research and informative interviews, which are like jewels on a crown now adeptly arranged for the public to admire. - Elizabeth MacGonagle (author of Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique) "Katie Singer deftly excerpts compelling stories from Newark's Krueger-Scott African American Oral History Project to teach readers about the city's powerful Black historical narrative and, more broadly, about the power of oral history to preserve the past when other documentation and interpretation efforts prove too expensive, logistically complicated, and politically fraught."
- Melissa Ziobro (director of Public History, Monmouth University)