- Collection:
- Voices of Freedom
- Title:
- Interview with Dr. Laverne Byrd Smith
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carrington, Ronald E.
James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative
VCU Libraries - Date of Original:
- 2003-03-21
- Subject:
- African Americans--Virginia--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Virginia
Virginia--Race relations--History--20th century - People:
- Smith, Laverne Byrd
- Location:
- United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Dr. Laverne Byrd Smith, educator and civil rights activist, recounts her experiences in segregated Richmond, including its segregated streetcars. She also discussed writing for the Richmond Afro-American; serving as president of the Virginia Council on Human Relations; and interviewing Martin Luther King, Jr.
This interview was conducted March 21, 2003 at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. Ronald E. Carrington, President of Media Consultants Global, Inc. of Richmond, was the director-producer of the video taping and interviewed the interviewees. Historian Dr. Betsy Brinson conducted preliminary oral interviews. The text of the oral history was transcribed by Halasz Reporting and Video, Richmond. Other editing by the staff of Special Collections and Archives, VCU Libraries. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.library.vcu.edu/islandora/object/vcu%3A6149
- 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. - Contributing Institution:
- James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
- Rights:
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