- Collection:
- Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Barbara Abernathy interview (2000-05-15)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carver-VCU Partnership
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2000-05-15
- Subject:
- African American neighborhoods--Virginia--Richmond
Carver Area Civic Improvement League
City planning--Citizen participation
Citizens' associations--Virginia--Richmond - People:
- Abernathy, Barbara, 1941-
Hill, Kathryn Colwell
Abernathy, Barbara, 1941- --Political activity
Abernathy, Barbara, 1941- --Interviews - Location:
- United States, Virginia, City of Richmond, 37.55376, -77.46026
- Medium:
- sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
application/pdf - Description:
- Barbara Abernathy, the president of the Carver Area Civic Improvement League (CACIL), discusses her early background in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va.; her move to Washington, D.C.; her education at Northeastern University; her return to Richmond, Va.; and her career at Reynolds Metals Co. She also describes what it was like growing up in the Carver area; what neighborhood life was like in the 1950s; changes in the community; how she became an activist in the neighborhood; and visions for future of the Carver community.
Part of a series of interviews conducted as part of a Carver-VCU Partnership project documenting the history of the Carver neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A37137
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. 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. - Extent:
- Track 1: 105 MB (57 minutes, 29 seconds); Track 2: 93.2 MB (50 minutes, 56 seconds). Note: transcription ends at Track 2, 12:03.
- Original Collection:
- Carver Living Newspaper Project
Carver Neighborhood - VCU Partnership Archives, RG 59-1 - Contributing Institution:
- James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
- Rights:
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