- Collection:
- Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Selma Taylor interview (2000-05-17)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carver-VCU Partnership
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2000-05-17
- Subject:
- Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority
Virginia Commonwealth University
African American neighborhoods--Virginia--Richmond
City planning--Virginia--Richmond
City planning--Citizen participation
Housing authorities--Officials and employees--Interviews
Taylor, Selma--Interviews - People:
- Taylor, Selma
Abernathy, Barbara, 1941-
Hill, Kathryn Colwell - 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:
- Selma Taylor, of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, discusses her work with the housing authority and involvement with the Carver community and the Carver Civic Association in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Taylor also describes some of the neighborhood leaders that she has worked with over the years, including Helen Smith and Madeline Peters; the role of the housing authority and development in the Carver community; the issue of student housing in the community; resident involvement in the community association; and the issue of historic review in community development; Barbara Abernathy, one of the interviewers and president of the Carver Area Civic Improvement League (CACIL), also comments on efforts to increase community involvement and the relationship between VCU and 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%3A37173
- 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: 85 MB (46 minutes, 27 seconds); Track 2: 86.6 MB (47 minutes, 17 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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