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3 Arkansans are part of African-American oral history archive

The largest African-American archive of oral histories is now located at the Library of Congress.  The non-profit group HistoryMakers have been working on collecting thousands of interviews to  tell the story of the African-American experience.  Three Arkansans are on the list; civil rights lawyer and activist Adjoa Aiyetoro, Presidential diarist Janis Kearney, and banking executive and presidential appointee Bob Nash.  KASU's Johnathan Reaves has more in this report. 

The public can start viewing the archive this fall.  More information can be found here

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.