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Edwin B. Henderson: Oral History Interview

Edwin B. Henderson: Oral History Interview

Creator Northern Virginia Oral History Project
Description Henderson discusses race relations, education, and social life in Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.
Call number C0030
Date from 1965
Date to 1965
Geographic school Northern Virginia, Washington D.C.
Size 1 sound cassette (60 min) mono.; 21 page transcript.
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/novaoralhist.html
Repository George Mason University Libraries
Repository address Special Collection Research Center, Fenwick Library MS 2FL, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Repository contact name Brittney Falter
Repository contact title Research Services Coordinator, Special Collection Research Center
Repository contact email speccoll@gmu.edu
Repository contact phone (703) 993-2220
DoveRegion region6
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    Segregation in education

o    Virginia, Northern

o    Public Schools of the District of Columbia
Types Oral History
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Caroline Sherman: Oral History Interview 

Caroline Sherman 

Creator Northern Virginia Oral History Project
Description Ms. Sherman reminiscences about her life as a student at the Freedom Hill School, Great Falls, VA. (ca. 1925-1940) with emphasis on one-room schools, transportation, and school board membership.
Call number C0030
Date from 1970
Date to 1970
Geographic school Great Falls, VA
Size 1 sound cassette (30 min) mono.; 1 sound tape reel (master).; 1 abstract (2p.).
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/novaoralhist.html
Repository George Mason University Libraries
Repository address Special Collections Research Center,  Fenwick Library MS 2FL, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Repository contact name Brittney Falter
Repository contact title Research Services Coordinator, Special Collections Research Center
Repository contact email speccoll@gmu.edu
Repository contact phone (703) 993-2220
DoveRegion Region 6
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    Segregation in education
Types Oral History
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Danville (VA) civil rights movement collection

Danville (VA) civil rights movement collection 

Creator Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History
Description This collection includes oral Histories corresponding with the Danville Civil Rights Movement.
Call number
Date from 1960
Date to 1964
Geographic school Danville, VA
Size
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.danvillemuseum.org/exhibitions/2012-exhibits.html
Repository Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History
Repository address 975 Main Street, Danville, VA 24541
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History
Repository contact email cara@danvillemuseum.org
Repository contact phone (434) 793-5644
DoveRegion region2
Subjects o    African American political activists

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights demonstrations

o    Civil rights movements

o    Race relations
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Williamsburg documentary project

  Williamsburg documentary project 

Creator Special Collections Research Center
Description The Williamsburg Documentary Project collects materials on a wide variety of topics, but a few particularly rich clusters of materials have accrued around the following topics: African American life, with particular attention to desegregation.
Call number
Date from
Date to
Geographic school Williamsburg, VA
Size approximately 400 oral histories
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/453
Repository College of William and Mary, Special Collections Research Center
Repository address Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William & Mary, PO Box 8794, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794
Repository contact name
Repository contact title College of William and Mary. Special Collections Research Center
Repository contact email spcoll@wm.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 221-3090
DoveRegion region4
Subjects o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    College of William and Mary

o    School integration

o    Williamsburg (Va.)
Types o    Interviews

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Inventory of the Ted Dalton Papers

Inventory of the Ted Dalton Papers

Creator Theodore Roosevelt Dalton
Description Papers, 1933-1978, of Ted Dalton, Virginia state senator, 1944-1959; Republican candidate for governor of Virginia in 1953 and 1957; and U.S. District judge for the Western District of Virginia. Includes correspondence, speeches, news clippings, photographs, recordings, reels of film and legal opinions. Subjects covered include Republican Party politics, the Virginia General Assembly, highways, compulsory automobile insurance, segregation, the Gray Commission Report (Commission on Public Education), the College of William and Mary, and Dalton’s appointment as a federal judge. Prominent correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, Howard Baker, Ezra T. Benson, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton, Colgate W. Darden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald R. Ford, Mills E. Godwin, Albertis S. Harrison, A. Linwood Holton, J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Richard Nixon, Davis Y. Paschall, Richard H. Poff, Lewis F. Powell, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens, William M. Tuck, and Edward E. Willey.
Call number Mss. 81 D17
Date from 1933
Date to 1978
Geographic school Virginia
Size 16 boxes
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00037.frame
Repository College of William and Mary, Special Collections Research Center
Repository address Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William & Mary, PO Box 8794, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794
Repository contact name
Repository contact title College of William and Mary. Special Collections Research Center
Repository contact email spcoll@wm.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 221-3090
DoveRegion region4
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African American–Segregation

o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Godwin, Mills E. (Mills Edwin), 1914-1999

o    Harrison, Albertis S. (Albertis Sydney), 1907-1995

o    High school students

o    District courts–Virginia

o    Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood), 1923-
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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The Bland County History Archives

The Bland County History Archives 

Creator Bland County Archives
Description Some of the approximately 700 interviews in this collection explore the African American community in Dry Fork, including race relations in the county and the South, and the school integration process at Rocky Gap.
Call number
Date from 1920
Date to 2007
Geographic school Bland County, VA
Size circa 665 transcripts; audio cassettes; video recordings (VHS); digital sound recordings; digital video recordings
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.blandcountyhistoryarchives.org/
Repository Bland County History Archives
Repository address Rocky Gap High School, P.O. Box 9, Eagles Road, Rocky Gap, VA 24366
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Bland County History Archives
Repository contact email jdodson@mac.com
Repository contact phone (276) 928-1100
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African Americans–Social conditions

o    Appalachian Region

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Interviews

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

o    Video recordings
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Jefferson School oral history project

Jefferson School oral history project

Creator Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
Description This project includes a collection of oral histories with people associated with the Jefferson School, Charlottesville’s first African-American high school. The project generated thirty interviews.
Call number
Date from 2002
Date to
Geographic school Charlottesville, VA
Size 2 volumes
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://ppiedmont.squarespace.com/projects/2009/12/2/jefferson-school-oral-history-project.html
Repository Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Repository address McIntire Building, 200 Second Street NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902-5245
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
Repository contact email info@albemarlehistory.org
Repository contact phone (434) 296-7294
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Education

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts