Collection Search Results
Applied Filters: clear all filters
-
Included:
- place: "Roanoke"
Your search found 2 result(s).
-
Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Dr. Hill, Oliver White Jr., American, born 1949
- Interviewed by
- Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of
- Hill, Oliver White Sr., American, 1907 - 2007
- Howard University, American, founded 1867
- Marshall, Thurgood, American, 1908 - 1993
- Houston, Charles Hamilton, American, 1895 - 1951
- NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., American, founded 1940
- Virginia State University, American, founded 1882
- Moses, Robert Parris, American, born 1935
- Algebra Project, American, founded 1982
- Date
- August 17, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:13:30
- Description
- The oral history consists of five digital files: 2011.174.102.1a, 2011.174.102.1b, 2011.174.102.1c, 2011.174.102.1d, and 2011.174.102.1e.
- Oliver W. Hill, Jr., Ph.D. discusses his father, civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill. He explains his father's childhood and education in Roanoke, Virginia, how he ended up at Howard University in the 1920s, where he was in the same class as Justice Thurgood Marshall and studied law under Charles Hamilton Houston. In the 1930s Oliver Hill, Sr. reunited with both of them to work for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which was focused on challenging segregation laws. Hill, Jr. describes his own experience as a black student integrating a white school in Richmond, Virginia, attending Howard University, becoming a psychology professor at Virginia State University, and working with Bob Moses on the Algebra Project. He also discusses the education of African American children, school reform, and student testing.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0102
- Place collected
- Petersburg, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Roanoke, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Education
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Law
- Political organizations
- Segregation
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1919-1933
- U.S. History, 1969-2001
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.102.1a-e
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
-
William R. Lawrence Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Lawrence, William R., American, 1922 - 2014
- Interviewed by
- Cline, David P. Ph. D., American, born 1969
- Subject of
- Norfolk and Western Railway, American, 1838 - 1997
- Date
- August 16, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:45:09
- Description
- The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.101.1a, 2011.174.101.1b, 2011.174.101.1c, and 2011.174.101.1d.
- William Lawrence describes his long career with the Norfolk and Western Railway in Roanoke, Virginia. Lawrence was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1922 but grew up in Roanoke and worked for the railroad most of his adult life. He discusses conditions of labor, race relations at the workplace, and his experience working as a foreman.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0101
- Place collected
- Roanoke, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Norfolk, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.101.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress