- Collection:
- Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Allen Knight interview (2000-01-15)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carver-VCU Partnership
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2000-01-15
- Subject:
- African American neighborhoods--Virginia--Richmond--Social conditions
Segregation--Virginia--Richmond
African American disc jockeys--Virginia--Richmond--Interviews - People:
- Knight, Allen, 1926-
Plybon, Laura
Waller, Sheila
Knight, Allen, 1926---Childhood and youth--Anecdotes
Knight, Allen, 1926---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:
- In this interview, Allen Knight discusses his life growing up in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va.; memories of his childhood; and the effects of desegregation on the community and his career. He also describes moments of change in the Carver community; the roles of men; problems facing the neighborhood; and his career in radio including his job as the first black disc jockey in Richmond.
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%3A37184
- 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: 43.7 MB (23 minutes, 54 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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