Category: oral histories

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Church Hill [Richmond] oral history collection

Church Hill [Richmond] oral history collection

Creator Special Collections and Archives
Description This collection focuses on social and living conditions in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood, which was predominantly black, during the era of segregation. Contains three oral histories that connect in particular to the civil rights movement.
Call number
Date from 1982
Date to
Geographic school Richmond, VA
Size 34 transcripts; audiocassettes
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vbha/church/church.html
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 American neighborhoods

o    African American politicians

o    African Americans–Social conditions

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    College integration

o    School integration–Virginia

o    Segregation in education–Virginia
Types o    Interviews

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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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
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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
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Southern Student Organizing Committee and Thomas N. Gardner papers

Southern Student Organizing Committee and Thomas N. Gardner papers

Creator University of Virginia
Description This collection contains Tom Gardner’s papers as staff member and chairman of the SSOC [Southern Student Organizing Committee].
Call number
Date from 1948
Date to 1994
Geographic school Charlottesville, VA
Size ca. 2,500 items (housed in 6 Hollinger boxes, 2.5 linear feet); correspondence; interviews; memoranda; reports; minutes; broadsides; printed materials; articles; speeches; newsclippings.
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu01448.xml.frame
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    Civil rights movements

o    Civil rights movements–Southern States

o    College students

o    Labor movement

o    Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)

o    School integration–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)

o    University of Virginia

o    Vietnam War, 1961-1975

o    Protest movements

o    Student movements
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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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
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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
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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
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Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament papers

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament papers

Creator Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Description Collection documents the missions and missionary work of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, formally known as Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. Of note are documents related to two African American high schools operated by the order. St. Francis de Sales at Mt. Pleasant, a high school for young black women opened in 1893 and St. Emma Military Academy, in Belmead, a school for young black men, opened in 1895. The schools closed in 1970, largely because of the desegregation of public schools in Virginia. The collection also includes the papers of the Francis A. Drexel Family 1858-1945; the writings of St. Katherine Drexel; photographs and glass lantern slides of both schools and Saint Katherine. Saint Katharine Drexel papers include documentation about the only African American Roman Catholic college in the country, Xavier University of Louisiana, which she founded.
Call number
Date from 1858
Date to current
Geographic school Powhatan County
Size
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions Y
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Repository address St. Catherine Building, 1663 Bristol Pike, Bensaelm, PA 19020
Repository contact name Stephanie Morris
Repository contact title Director, Archives
Repository contact email sbsarchives@aol.com
Repository contact phone (215) 244-9900 ext. 352
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    Private schools
Types o    Diaries

o    Financial records

o    Oral History

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Speeches
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One Ashland, many voices oral history project 

One Ashland, many voices oral history project 

Creator Randolph-Macon College. McGraw-Page Library. Special Collections
Description This project contains oral histories taken in celebration of the town’s sesquicentennial anniversary, including an interview with Melvin Hall, the first African American high school principal in Ashland after school integration.
Call number
Date from 2008
Date to
Geographic school Ashland, VA
Size 42 transcripts; 46 digital sound recordings (available in both mp3 and wav formats)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://library.rmc.edu/specialcollections/digcoll/OneAshland/OneAshland.html
Repository Randolph-Macon College, Flavia Reed Owen Special Collections and Archives
Repository address McGraw-Page Library, Randolph-Macon College, P.O. Box 5005, Ashland, VA 23005-5505
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Randolph-Macon College. Special Collections
Repository contact email archives@rmc.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 752-3203
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African American educators

o    Ashland (Va.)

o    School integration
Types o    Interviews

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Carter-Mason, Vivian 

Carter-Mason, Vivian 

Creator Old Dominion University Archives
Description Interviews of the founder and active member of the Women’s Council for Interracial Cooperation. Includes audio cassettes and transcripts that document her family history, civil rights in Norfolk, establishment of the Women’s Council for Interracial Cooperation, the desegregation crisis in Norfolk, and the experiences of Afro-Americans in Norfolk.
Call number MG 53
Date from 1978
Date to 1978
Geographic school Norfolk, VA
Size 1 interview
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions The collection is open to researchers with no restrictions. Information on literary property rights should be directed to the Special Collections Librarian.
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/oralhistory/womenhistory/vcmason1.html
Repository Old Dominion University, Special Collections and University Archives
Repository address Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Repository contact email libspecialcollections@odu.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 683-4483
DoveRegion region3
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 closings

o    School integration

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Segregation in education

o    Women’s Council for Interracial Cooperation

o    Carter-Mason, Vivian
Types Oral History