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
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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
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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

William E. Lavery papers

William E. Lavery papers

Creator William E. Lavery
Description Covering a range of issues and activities occurring during his presidency of Virginia Tech, the collection includes multiple references to Tech’s efforts to meet the U.S. Office of Civil Rights’ requirements for an acceptable Affirmative Action Compliance Plan (e.g. Box 1, Folders 8-10; Box 15, Folder 44), concerns about lack of progress in meeting plan objectives (e.g. Box 4, Folder 16; Box 12, Folder 20; Box 18, Folder 23), statistical data and reports regarding Tech’s progress in increasing minority and female students and faculty (e.g. Box 8, Folders 24-25; Box 9, Folders 23 and 25; Box 12, Folder 20; Box 15, Folder 26; Box 20, Folders 19-20), and other related matters. Folders titled “Civil Rights” and “Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action” are primary sources of desegregation material but other sources of occasional information in this area are in folders titled “Board of Visitors, Report to 1978” containing a speech by Old Dominion University’s president that mentions issues of “duplication” with Norfolk State; “Vice President for Administration 1977” that contains articles quoting Tech professors and students about insufficient progress toward integration; and “State Council of Higher Education 1979” regarding Tech’s hosting of the 1979 Summer Program for Undergraduate Minority Students. Box 15, Folder 43 (titled EO/AA Advisory Committee 1985) includes James Dean’s narrative describing early resistance to and Tech’s efforts toward desegregation at Virginia Tech and in the town Blacksburg.
Call number RG 2/12
Date from 1975
Date to 1987
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 22 cu. ft.
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL
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
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Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in higher education

Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

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.
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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

Black Student Directory (Virginia Tech)

Black Student Directory (Virginia Tech)

Creator Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office
Description The EO/AA Office began publishing a Black Student Directory in 1977. This edition contains a list of black organizations on campus, names and both campus address and hometown of undergraduate and graduate students, a list of students by major, and a list of black faculty and staff at Virginia Tech in 1986-87.
Call number RG 2/12, Box 20, Folder 19
Date from 1986
Date to 1987
Geographic school Blacksburg and elsewhere
Size 1 softbound 74 page booklet
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL
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
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Subjects o    African American students
Types o    Organizational Records

o    Pamphlets

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
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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

Generations of Women Leaders at Virginia Tech

Generations of Women Leaders at Virginia Tech

Creator Clara B. Cox, writer and editor
Description Description of the arrival, experiences, influence, growth, and achievements of women students and faculty at Virginia Tech between 1921-1996. Includes black women. Also includes description of Tech’s relationship to Radford University during the period that Radford was the women’s division of VPI. Publication was a product of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 75th Anniversary Steering Committee.
Call number LD 5655.A4 1996
Date from 1996
Date to 1996
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 book
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
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 integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Women college students

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

o    Radford University

Types Narrative