During the coming year, the Maynard Institute will post selected video clips from its oral history collection. Culled from interviews with some of the nation's most prominent journalists, the collection serves as a reminder of the important contributions made by journalists of color at a time when newsroom diversity is under siege.

Each month, we will offer a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most important events that shaped our nation from the perspectives of these black journalists.

The collection is part of the Maynard Institute History Project, an on-going effort to document and preserve the stories of those courageous African American journalists who broke into general circulation media during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.

The Black Journalists History Project and the Maynard Institute Web site is made possible through major funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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» How They Got Their Start: They could be called the integrationists, the young African American men and women who pushed open the doors of mainstream media and paved the way for journalists of color. Young journalists such as Nancy Maynard, Ed Bradley, Earl Caldwell, Charlayne Hunter Gault, Claude Lewis and Wallace Terry reported, organized, mentored and raised the bar for generations to come.

Read more about the History Project