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Date of Interview
2-11-2000
Interviewees
Robinson, Viola
Interviewer
Lucas, Lucy Anne; Davis, Trina
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. 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.
Subject
Robinson, Viola -- Interviews; Robinson, Viola -- Anecdotes; Robinson, Viola -- Childhood and youth; 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_robinsonviola_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History