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This fonds consists of oral interviews (digital) conducted by Abigail Carl-Klassen, transcripts, consent forms, as well as textual and photographic materials provided by the participants. "The oral history project sought to document and explore the ways in which Mennonite, Mestizo, and Indigenous individuals and communities have interacted with one another in spite of fears, prohibitions, and taboos, in the nearly 100 years since Old Colony Mennonites arrived from Manitoba and Saskatchewan to settle in the region in 1922. We especially wanted to capture personal stories to explore how life has changed in the Campos and to document the depth and variety of cross-cultural interactions occurring between individuals and communities at the present moment." https://www.mennotoba.com/5-questions-with-poet-abigail-carl-klassen/. The project was funded by the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation.

1) Annual Reports, 2018 - (1 file) Box 395
11) Ephemera - (1 file) Box 395
12) Other Museums, N.D. - (1 file) Box 395

Oral histories recorded during the course of Goossen's research on the rise of LGBTQ leaders in Mennonite Church USA.  Goossen's research was published in an article entitled, "'Repent of the Sins of Homophobia': The Rise of Queer Mennonite Leaders" (Nova Religio 24:3 (February 2021).  The collection includes nineteen oral history interviews and copies of consent statements signed by interviewees. Other oral interviews conducted for this project were not released for public research (at the request of those who participated with Goossen in the interviews) and remain in Goossen's possession.

Audio recordings and full transcripts of 16 oral history interviews conducted with early leaders of the Minority Ministries Council (MMC). MMC was a department of the Mennonite Board of Missions that worked to strengthen and support racial and ethnic minority congregations, to assist the church in relating to minority communities, to serve as liaison between militant groups and the church, and to help the church understand and practice the radical discipleship of Jesus Christ.

Interviews were conducted as part of a 2017 reunion and conference that took place in Goshen, Indiana. The collection also contains administrative documentation for the project, including funding proposals, contact lists, schedules, promotional materials, photographs, and audio/video recordings of conference proceedings. Consent forms are available for some, but not all, of the interview participants.

Narrators include the following people: Conrado Hinojosa, Gracie Torres, Helen Brown, Hubert Brown, John Powell, Shirley Powell, John Ventura, José Ortíz, Lee Roy Berry, Jr., Lupe de León, Neftali Torres, Raymond L. Jackson, Seferina de León, Teodoro Chapa, Tito Guedea, and Tony Brown.