vrc_voices voices vrc yes Voices of freedom : the Virginia civil rights movement / produced by the Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative. African Americans--Virginia--Interviews Civil rights movements--Virginia Virginia--Race relations--History--20th century Boone, Raymond H.--Interviews Cooper, Elizabeth, plaintiff--Interviews Johnson, Jane Cooper--Interviews Glaise, Joyce Elizabeth, 1950- --Interviews Hardy, Thomas S.--Interviews Harris, Curtis W., 1925- --Interviews Hill, Oliver W., 1907-2007--Interviews Marsh, Henry L., 1933- --Interviews Reid, Milton A.--Interviews Reid, W. Ferguson--Interviews Smith, Laverne Byrd--Interviews Stokes, John A., 1931- --Interviews Ronald E. Carrington was the director-producer of the video taping and interviewed the interviewees. Web site hosted by VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives. A collection of eleven videotaped oral histories (each approximately 20-25 minutes long) of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. Voices of Freedom focuses on statewide activities from the 1950s through the early 1970s and includes stories about the "Jim Crow" segregation laws that prevailed up until the mid-1960s; stories about the struggles to change the laws and to change public attitudes; and advice from these civil rights veterans to future generations of Virginians/Americans. Complete transcripts are also available on the website. Richmond, Va. : Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative VCU Libraries. Special Collections and Archives Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative 2003 Moving images Oral histories http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/voices 2003 Virginia 20120504 115629