- Collection:
- Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wood interview (2000-01-08)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carver-VCU Partnership
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2000-01-08
- Subject:
- African American neighborhoods--Virginia--Richmond--Social conditions
Segregation--Virginia--Richmond
Race relations--Virginia--Richmond
Wood, Charles, Mrs.--Interviews
Letter carriers --Virginia--Richmond--Interviews
Wood, Charles, 1907---Anecdotes
Wood, Charles, 1907---Interviews - People:
- Wood, Mrs. Charles
Wood, Charles, 1907-
Plybon, Laura
Waller, Sheila - 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:
- In this interview, Charles Wood, who grew up in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va., discusses his early life in the community; his involvement with the Moore Street Baptist Church; and his career as a letter carrier in the post office. He also recalls things he liked about the Carver community when he lived there; the effect of desegregation on the community; changes within the church; anecdotes and memories of family and friends in the Carver area; and changes in race relations in the Richmond area.
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%3A37180
- 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: 87.1 MB (47 minutes, 34 seconds); Track 2: 87.1 MB (47 minutes, 34 seconds); Track 3: 87.2 MB (47 minutes, 38 seconds); Track 4: 87.3 MB (47 minutes, 43 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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