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Anna Holden papers

Anna Holden papers

Creator Anna Holden
Description This collection contains the papers of Anna Holden, a research sociologist who was active in various civil rights organizations throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The collection reflects Holden’s work.
Call number Mss 543; Micro 815; Tape 810A
Date from 1946
Date to 1977
Geographic school Virginia
Size 9.0 c.f. (22 archives boxes), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), 5 tape recordings
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00543
Repository Wisconsin Historical Society
Repository address 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Wisconsin Historical Society. Library-Archives
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (608) 264-6460
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African Americans–Civil rights–Washington (D.C.)

o    Congress of Racial Equality

o    School integration–Tennessee–Clinton

o    School integration–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    United States Commission on Civil Rights

o    Discrimination in housing–Washington (D.C.)

o    School integration–California–Sacramento

o    School integration–Rhode Island–Providence

o    Sociologists
Types o    Interviews

o    Sound recordings
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Telling Our Stories: School Desegregation in Western Virginia

Telling our stories: school desegregation in Western Virginia

Creator Washington and Lee University. Special Collections and Archives
Description This collection consists of transcripts of oral history interviews done in 1988 and 2004. The compiler is Dr. Theodore Delaney, chair of the history department at Washington and Lee University.
Call number
Date from 1988
Date to 2004
Geographic school western Virginia
Size 1.2 linear feet
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://annie.wlu.edu/record=b1609565~S0
Repository Washington and Lee University, Department of Special Collections and Archives
Repository address James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, 204 W. Washington Street, Lexington, VA 24450
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Washington and Lee University. Special Collections and Archives
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (540) 458-8663
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration
Types o    Interviews

o    Transcripts
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Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project

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
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Interview with Rev. Philip Price 

Interview with Rev. Philip Price 

Creator Special Collections at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Description Contains an interview with Rev. Phillip Harmon Price. Price and his sister, Anna Christine Price integrated Blacksburg High School in 1961.
Call number
Date from 1996
Date to
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 2 cassette tapes; 1 transcript
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/blackhistory/timeline/revprice.htm
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 clergy

o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Interviews

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Black Appalachians Oral History Project

Black Appalachians Oral History Project

Creator Michael A. Cooke
Description The Black Appalachians Oral History Project consists of approximately twenty-five taped interviews conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University concerning black life in Appalachia, especially in Montgomery County, Virginia. Collected during the early 1990s, many of the interviews include information and history of segregation and integration of schools in and around Montgomery County. The interviewees represented communities such as Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Elliston, Riner, Shawsville, and Wake Forest. Transcripts are currently available for six of the interviews.
Call number Ms91-109
Date from 1991
Date to 1991
Geographic school Montgomery County, VA
Size 0.4 cu. ft.; 2 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/vt/viblbv00024.xml.frame
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    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    Montgomery County (Va.)

o    Blacksburg (Va.)

o    Christiansburg (Va.)

o    Elliston (Va.)

o    Riner (Va.)

o    Shawsville (Va.)

o    Wake Forest (Va.)
Types o    Narrative

o    Oral History
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The Oral History of the Principalship

The Oral History of the Principalship

Creator Patrick W. Carlton
Description The Oral History of the Public School Principalship is an ongoing project designed to interview retired elementary, middle, and high school principals for their views, reminiscences, and accumulated wisdom. Most of the interviewees are from the Southeast (mainly Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, District of Columbia, and West Virginia). The Project Director is Dr. Patrick W. Carlton, formerly an associate professor at VPI&SU but currently at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The UNLV website permits searching by race, state, gender, name, level, and retirement decade, and may be permit easier searching for issues surrounding desegregation in Virginia.
Call number MS 1989-040
Date from 1987
Date to 1995
Geographic school primarily southeastern United States
Size 8 cu. ft.
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/principalship/interviews.html
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    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    African American school principals
Types Oral History
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Not Our Children

Not Our Children

Creator Phoenix Productions, Inc.
Description Oral histories collected in 1992 by Ken Hoen and Laurie Hoen as research for a documentary film on the closing of the Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., public schools, 1959-1963, in response to federally-ordered desegregation.
Call number Mss15 N8437 a
Date from 1959
Date to 1963
Geographic school Prince Edward County, VA
Size 15 items (printed booklet and 14 audio cassettes)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Virginia Historical Society
Repository address 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220
Repository contact name L. Eileen Parris
Repository contact title Archivist
Repository contact email eparris@vahistorical.org
Repository contact phone (804) 358-4901
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African American students–Virginia

o    African Americans–Civil rights–Virginia

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    Prince Edward County (Va.)

o    Public schools–Virginia–Prince Edward County

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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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
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African-American Richmond: Educational Segregation and Desegregation

African-American Richmond: Educational Segregation and Desegregation

Creator Virginia Commonwealth University
Description This portion of the VBHA is comprised of fourteen oral history interviews conducted in 1992 by Virginia Commonwealth University students with African-Americans residing in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area. While the interviews focused on the educational experiences of these individuals, other subjects and issues affecting the lives of African-Americans were also discussed by the participants. The typed transcripts of the oral histories were scanned in 1994 to be included in the Virginia Black History Archives database and are accessible from this site.
Call number
Date from 1992
Date to 1992
Geographic school Richmond, VA
Size 14 interviews
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
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 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    Virginia Black History Archives Database
Types Oral History
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Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers, 1946-1999 

Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers, 1946-1999 

Creator Edward H. Peeples, Jr.
Description The collection contains three lengthy oral histories conducted by Dr. Peeples of J. Kenneth Morland.
Call number
Date from 1946
Date to 1999
Geographic school Prince Edward County, VA
Size includes photographs (circa 100)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=941
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 Americans–Education

o    African Americans–Social conditions

o    American Friends Service Committee

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

o    Civil rights movements–Southern States

o    Civil rights movements

o    Prince Edward County (Va.)

o    Prince William (Va.)

o    Discrimination in education

o    School integration

o    White supremacy movements
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts