Oakland University’s Pontiac Oral History Archive is a series of auto cassette tapes containing interviews with everyday Black residents of Pontiac, Michigan from the 1970s. Deeply affected by the stories on these tapes, my collaborator Dr. Crystal VanKooten (Writing and Rhetoric) and I are working to make them universally accessible through the creation of a public, web-based archive. To date, we’ve worked with students to create a podcast series highlighting and contextualizing stories from the tapes, applied for research grants to fund the digitization and transcription of the tapes, and hosted an event with Dr. Johnetta Brazzell, the project’s founder. We’ve also connected with living relatives of the interviewees for their permission to publish the interviews. This research has yielded contextual photos and maps, as well as unexpected interpersonal and intercommunity connections. This supporting material allows the web-based archive to tell a much richer story of the lives of people whose stories too often go unheard. I will be speaking about this project from a graphic design perspective at the forthcoming Design Incubation Colloquium at Kent State University on October 15, 2022. In collaboration with Oakland University’s Kresge Library, where the archive resides, design work on the web archive will begin in early 2023, with an aim to release it publicly in early 2024.