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The history of Franco-Americans has been omitted for generations from the history books due to the politics and discrimination Francos faced in employment and social settings.

 

The history of Franco-Americans, like Native Americans, has long since been left out of school curriculum so our younger generations are becoming less aware of their roots, their language and their history.

 

Franco-Americans have a proud ethnic heritage that needs to be preserved. The history of the Franco-Americans is not complete without the inclusion of the voices that lived the experience. To that end, the Franco-American Oral History Archives is to create and preserve a more complete record of the history of Franco-American experience in the northeast by preserving recorded interviews, the recollections and experiences of all who are Franco-American.

 

The mission of the Franco-American Oral History Archives is two-fold. The mission of the Franco-American Oral History Archives is to develop, collect, archive, and make available to the public oral documentation pertaining to the personal, regional, ethnic and political histories of Franco-Americans. As a public history, it is to connect the academy with the community by promoting family/community studies, historic preservation, heritage tourism and high-technology media in order to enrich historical understanding in public memory.