Mamie Yarbrough Interview Trailer, Michigan

During the summer of 2016, Michigan students, like Qiyamah Muhammad who created this video, took part in the Youth Ambassadors program at the Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, developed as part of Museum on Main Street's Stories: Yes program. The students researched, conducted, and transcribed the oral histories of area locals. They created short "movie trailers" for each interview so that museum visitors could quickly glean the content of the longer-format oral histories. 

The full oral history about Mamie Yarbrough can be found at the Heritage Museum and Cultural Center in St. Joseph, Michigan.

Movie headline (00:08): The story of a woman who made a difference.

Movie headline (00:21): In the city of Benton Harbor.

Movie headline (00:28): Yarbrough is a true historian.

Movie headline (00:36): We learned some fascinating things in this awesome program.

Movie headline (00:41): Prepare to be . . .

Movie headline (00:46): Amazed.      

Movie headline (00:53): Life and times of Mamie Yarbrough.

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Asset ID: 2022.20.03
Themes: Public service, women, civil servant, historians
Date recorded: 2016
Length of recording: 00:59 s
File Type: Video
Related traveling exhibition: Crossroads: Change in Rural America
Sponsor or affiliated organization: Heritage Museum and Cultural Center, St. Joseph, Michigan
More information: https://museumonmainstreet.org/blog-node/st-joseph-benton-harbors-youth-ambassadors

Museum on Main Street storytelling platforms provide an opportunity for small and rural communities and their residents to share their thoughts, opinions, and anecdotes. However, the opinions, ideas and language expressed by individual storytellers’ may not necessarily be those maintained by the Smithsonian. Individual storytellers’ and their collaborators are solely responsible for the content of their narratives and stories.