oral histories – Page 2 – Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE)

October 25, 2018

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

October 25, 2018

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

October 24, 2018

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

October 24, 2018October 24, 2018

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

October 23, 2018

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

October 23, 2018

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

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018

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

October 23, 2018

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

September 7, 2018

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

September 7, 2018

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