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Date of Interview
5-15-2000
Interviewees
Abernathy, Barbara, 1941-
Interviewer
Hill, Kathryn Colwell
Description
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. Barbara Abernathy, the president of the Carver Area Civic Improvement League (CACIL), discusses her early background in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va.; her move to Washington, D.C.; her education at Northeastern University; her return to Richmond, Va.; and her career at Reynolds Metals Co. She also describes what it was like growing up in the Carver area; what neighborhood life was like in the 1950s; changes in the community; how she became an activist in the neighborhood; and visions for future of the Carver community.
Note
The audio of this interview was digitized from audio cassette, and two audio files were combined to create this digital version.
Subject
Abernathy, Barbara, 1941- -- Interviews; Abernathy, Barbara, 1941- -- Political activity; Citizens' associations -- Virginia -- Richmond; City planning -- Citizen participation; Carver Area Civic Improvement League; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond.
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
oral histories (literary genre)
Local Genre
oral history; sound recording; text
Type
Sound; Text
Digital Format
audio/mp3
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
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). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
Carver-VCU Partnership Oral History Collection; Carver Living Newspaper Project
Contributors
Carver-VCU Partnership
Source
Carver Neighborhood - VCU Partnership Archives, RG 59-1, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
car_abernathybarbara_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History