- Collection:
- Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Carolyn Hawley and James McBride interview (2000-02-21)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carver-VCU Partnership
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2000-02-21
- Subject:
- Community development--Virginia--Richmond
City planning--Citizen participation
City planning--Virginia--Richmond
African American neighborhoods--Virginia--Richmond
McBride, James--Anecdotes
McBride, James--Interviews
Hawley, Carolyn, 1959---Anecdotes
Hawley, Carolyn, 1959---Interviews - People:
- McBride, James
Hawley, Carolyn, 1959-
Davis, Trina - Location:
- United States, Virginia, City of Richmond, 37.55376, -77.46026
- Medium:
- sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- audio/mpeg
application/pdf - Description:
- Carolyn Hawley and James McBride, residents of the Carver neighborhood in Richmond, Va., talk about their respective experiences. Carolyn Hawley, who was born in Carver, discusses her home, childhood, and school life in Carver. James McBride, who moved into the neighborhood in 1987, describes the changes he's seen in Carver; comparisons with the Church Hill area; and challenges facing the community. Carolyn Hawley and James McBride also discuss efforts by community leaders who have worked on behalf of the neighborhood; changes in the neighborhood; efforts to address the problem of abandoned properties; the expansion of VCU; community planning issues; and expectations regarding the Living Newspaper Project.
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%3A37155
- 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, 33 seconds); Track 2: 33.5 MB (18 minutes, 20 seconds)
- 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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