- Collection:
- Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015
- Title:
- Ruth Cooke Johnson interview (2013-10-04)
- Creator:
- Johnson, Ruth Cooke (interviewee)
Miller, Alyce P. (interviewer)
Daugherity, Brian J., 1972- (interviewer) - Contributor to Resource:
- Silvent, Christopher (contributor)
James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives (contributor) - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2013-10-04
- Subject:
- African American schools--Virginia--Goochland County
African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Goochland County
School integration -- Virginia --Goochland County
Community activists -- Virginia -- Goochland
African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County
African American schools--Curricula--Virginia--Goochland County
Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Johnson, Ruth Cooke -- Interviews
Johnson, Ruth Cooke -- Childhood and youth -- AnecdotesGoochland County (Va.) -- Race relations - People:
- Johnson, Ruth Cooke
- Location:
- United States, Virginia, Goochland County, 37.72198, -77.91636
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Text
MovingImage - Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- In this interview, Ruth Cooke Johnson discusses her youth in Goochland County, Virginia, and her parents' careers as owners of a local nightclub and restaurant, which her family continued to operate until 1988. She also discusses her memories of attending Backbone Elementary School and Central High School, which include descriptions of a typical day at school, the curriculum, the school layout, and recreational activities that were available to students. Ruth Cooke also talks about her family's involvement in the NAACP and community activism efforts at the time, highlighting her father's earlier role in the establishment of a bus program for local African American students and her daughter’s experiences attending newly-integrated schools.
An interview conducted as part of the Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015, documenting education in Goochland County, Virginia, particularly the impact of the Rosenwald Schools, and the differences between the education offered to white and black students during the period the Rosenwald Schools operated.
Includes transcription of entire interview in PDF format (29 pages).Call number: LA380.G66
Call number: LA380.G66 - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A34044
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright, and the copyright is held by Brian J. Daugherity, Alyce Miller, and Christopher Silvent. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Original oral history: Ruth Cooke Johnson interview (2013-10-04), Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015, M 501, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
- Extent:
- 144 MB (54 minutes, 10 seconds)
- Original Collection:
- Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015
- Contributing Institution:
- James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
- Rights: