Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech

Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech

Creator University Archives
Description The Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech chronicles important individuals, groups, events and dates, outstanding achievements, and newspaper articles pertaining to the history of African-Americans in the university and the community.
Call number
Date from 1890
Date to 2002
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size unknown
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/blackhistory/timeline
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Tamara Kennelly
Repository contact title University Archivist
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    Public schools

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Types o    Documentary Films

o    Narrative

o    Oral History

o    Photographs

Integration–25th anniversary of first black cadets at VMI

Integration–25th anniversary of first black cadets at VMI

Creator Public Broadcasting Service
Description This local PBS feature, titled “Integration–25th Anniversary of First Black Cadets at VMI” (1989), deals with the first five black students to enter the Virginia Military Institute and includes interviews of the three that graduated.
Call number
Date from 1989
Date to
Geographic school Lexington, VA
Size 1 video recording
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.vmi.edu/archives/home/
Repository Virginia Military Institute
Repository address Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute, 345 Letcher Avenue, Lexington, VA 24450
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Virginia Military Institute. Archives
Repository contact email archives@vmi.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 464-7516
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American college students–Virginia

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    College integration

o    School integration–Virginia

o    Virginia Military Institute

o    Race relations

Types o    Interviews

o    Video recordings

Voices of Freedom collection 

Voices of Freedom collection 

Creator Virginia Commonwealth University. Special Collections and Archives
Description This collection contains oral histories involving various subjects with the Civil Rights Movement.
Call number
Date from 2002
Date to 2003
Geographic school Virgina
Size 11 videocassettes; 11 RealMedia files; 11 transcripts; 11 photographs
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/index_voices.php?CISOROOT=/voices
Repository Virginia Commonwealth University Special Collections and Archives
Repository address James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives, 901 Park Avenue, P.O. Box 842033, Richmond, VA 23284-2033
Repository contact name Wesley Chenault
Repository contact title
Repository contact email libjbcsca@vcu.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 828-1108
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African American churches

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights movements

o    King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Segregation in education

o    Prince Edward County (Va.). County School Board–Trials, litigation, etc.

o    Southern Christian Leadership Conference

o    Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education–Trials, litigation, etc.

o    Voter registration

Types o    Interviews

o    Transcripts

o    Video recordings

Television news of the civil rights era 

Television news of the civil rights era 

Creator University of Virginia
Description News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, is a digitization project that aims to collect, digitize, and present in streaming video format over the World Wide Web television news footage from the Civil Rights Era.
Call number
Date from 1950
Date to 1970
Geographic school Virginia
Size circa 230 digitized video recordings; transcripts; manuscripts
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv/
Repository Virginia Center for Digital History
Repository address Taylor Room, Alderman Library, P.O. Box 400116, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4116
Repository contact name Scot French
Repository contact title
Repository contact email saf5g@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 924-4777
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    Civil rights movements

o    Civil rights movements–Southern States

o    Civil rights movements–Press coverage

o    Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

o    King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

o    Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

o    Roanoke River Valley (Va. and N.C.)

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Virginia–Politics and government

o    Television broadcasting

Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

Vanderbilt Television News Archives

Vanderbilt Television News Archives

Creator Various national TV news networks
Description The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world’s most extensive and complete archive of television news. Contains television news broadcasts of the national networks from August 5, 1968, to present.
Call number
Date from 1968
Date to
Geographic school Norfolk and elsewhere
Size none
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Non-subscribers will need to complete a brief registration form to search the database. There is currently no charge for searching the database of news abstracts and broadcast descriptions.
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
Repository Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Repository address 110 Twenty-first Avenue South, Suite 704, Nashville, TN 37203
Repository contact name
Repository contact title
Repository contact email tvnews@vanderbilt.edu
Repository contact phone (615) 322-2927
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School integration

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Segregation in education

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Vanderbilt Television News Archive

o    Broadcasting–United States–History–20th century

Types Broadcast-Television-News

Oral History of the Public School Principalship

Oral History of the Public School Principalship

Creator Patrick W. Carlton
Description This project contains 467 interviews, including 81 of African American principals, 56 of which are male and 25 of which are female. Most of the interviewees refer to the impact of integration on their professional careers.
Call number
Date from 1986
Date to present
Geographic school Virginia
Size approximately 20 linear feet
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.library.unlv.edu/faculty/research/principalship/index.php
Repository UNLV Department of Special Collections
Repository address Box 457010, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-7010
Repository contact name University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Special Collections
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (702) 895-2234
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American educators

o    African American students

o    Public schools

o    School integration

o    School integration–Virginia–Norfolk

o    School principals

o    Segregation in education

Types o    Interviews

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

o    Video recordings

Black History Committee Oral History Project

Black history committee Oral History Project

Creator Archives and Manuscripts, Thomas Balch Library
Description These interviews deal with segregation and integration as well as black community life, including schools and churches.They deal with the civil rights movement, including Irene Bobich and Gladys Jackson Lewis, who discusses Leesburg Integration in the 1950s
Call number M012
Date from 1950s
Date to
Geographic school Leesburg, VA
Size
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.leesburgva.gov/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2451
Repository Thomas Balch Library
Repository address 208 West Market Street, Leesburg, VA 20176
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Archives and Manuscripts
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (703) 737-7195
DoveRegion region6
Subjects o    African American churches

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Carmichael, Stokely

o    Civil rights movements

o    Leesburg (Va.)

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

Types o    Interviews

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

Schoolhouse Museum oral interviews

Schoolhouse Museum oral interviews

Creator Schoolhouse Museum
Description This collection consists of 150 oral histories of former teachers and students at black schools during the Jim Crow era in Virginia.
Call number
Date from 1876
Date to 1965
Geographic school Virginia
Size 150 interviews (transcript, audio tape, and video tape formats); photographs
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://theschoolhousemuseum.com/OralInterviews/tabid/57/Default.aspx
Repository The Schoolhouse Museum
Repository address 516 Main Street, P.O. Box 1113, Smithfield , VA 23431
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Schoolhouse Museum
Repository contact email theschoolhousemuseum@verizon.net
Repository contact phone (757) 365-4789
DoveRegion region3
Subjects o    African American educators

o    African American schools

o    African American students

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

Types o    Interviews

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

o    Video recordings

Mapping local knowledge, Danville, Va., 1945-75

Mapping local knowledge, Danville, Va., 1945-75

Creator The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Description Approximately thirty oral histories explore the civil rights movement in Danville, Virginia. Particular emphasis is placed on the sit-in at the Danville Public Library and subsequent court case that eventually led to the desegregation of the library
Call number
Date from 1998
Date to 2005
Geographic school Danville, VA
Size 30 oral histories
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/cslk/danville/index.html
Repository The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Repository address Alderman Library, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400115, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4115
Repository contact name
Repository contact title The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (434) 924-4527
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American political activists

o    African American politicians

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia School integration

Types o    Manuscripts

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

Locked out: the fall of massive resistance

Locked out: the fall of massive resistance

Creator Community Idea Stations (WCVE-PBS Richmond)
Description This collection includes 20 to 22 video recordings of about an hour long that were used for the documentary ‘Locked Out’ on school desegregation and massive resistance in Virginia.
Call number
Date from 2009
Date to
Geographic school Virginia
Size 20-22 video recordings
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/vLinkTitle/LOCKED+OUT+THE+FALL+OF+MASSIVE+RESISTANCE
Repository The Community Idea Stations
Repository address 23 Sesame Street, North Chesterfield, VA 23235
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Community Idea Stations
Repository contact email http://ideastations.org/contact-form
Repository contact phone (804) 560-8121
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    School integration

o    Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education–Trials, litigation, etc.

o    Virginia–Politics and government

Types o    Interviews

o    Video recordings