- Collection:
- Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Viola Robinson interview (2000-02-11)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carver-VCU Partnership
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives - Publisher:
- Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 2000-02-11
- Subject:
- African American neighborhoods--Virginia--Richmond
- People:
- Robinson, Viola
Davis, Trina
Lucas, Lucy Anne
Robinson, Viola--Childhood and youth--Anecdotes
Robinson, Viola--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, Viola Robinson, a resident of the Carver area of Richmond, Va., talks about her memories of the neighborhood, including her early jobs and the big band names that came to the area. She also discusses changes to Carver that she noticed since her departure and return to the area, her participation in the Martin Luther King march to Washington, D.C.; and her hopes for the area in the future.
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%3A37191
- 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: 38.8 MB (21 minutes, 12 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:
-