Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project
| Creator | Elaine Dowe Carter, Tamara Kennelly |
| Description | These interviews focus on the entry experience of the individual into the Virginia Tech community and the interviewees’ perceptions of the climate and attitudes within the university community, particularly as pertains to race and gender. The materials in this collection includes cassette tapes, DAT tapes, and transcripts of interviews with some of the first black women students at Virginia Tech (Jacquelyn Butler Blackwell, Marguerite Harper Scott, and Linda Edmunds Turner); Marva Felder Davis, first black homecoming queen; Cheryl Butler McDonald, first black woman in the Corps of Cadets; and Elaine Carter, catalyst of the project and doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech. Interviews were conducted by Elaine Dowe Carter and University Archivist Tamara Kennelly. |
| Call number | Ms95-026 |
| Date from | 1995 |
| Date to | 2001 |
| Geographic school | Blacksburg, VA |
| Size | Unknown |
| Access restrictions yes/no | no |
| Access restrictions | |
| Part Of larger collection yes/no | no |
| Larger collection title | |
| URL | http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/blackwomen/ |
| Repository | Virginia Tech Special Collections |
| Repository address | University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001 |
| Repository contact name | Aaron D. Purcell |
| Repository contact title | Director, Special Collections |
| Repository contact email | specref@vt.edu |
| Repository contact phone | (540) 231-6308 |
| DoveRegion | region1 |
| Subjects | o African American students
o African Americans–Civil rights o African Americans–Segregation o Public schools o Race relations o School integration o Segregation in higher education o Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Types | Oral History |