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Date of Interview
5-17-2000
Interviewees
Taylor, Selma
Interviewer
Hill, Kathryn Colwell; Abernathy, Barbara, 1941-
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. Selma Taylor, of the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, discusses her work with the housing authority and involvement with the Carver community and the Carver Civic Association in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Taylor also describes some of the neighborhood leaders that she has worked with over the years, including Helen Smith and Madeline Peters; the role of the housing authority and development in the Carver community; the issue of student housing in the community; resident involvement in the community association; and the issue of historic review in community development; Barbara Abernathy, one of the interviewers and president of the Carver Area Civic Improvement League (CACIL), also comments on efforts to increase community involvement and the relationship between VCU and 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
Taylor, Selma -- Interviews; Housing authorities -- Officials and employees -- Interviews; City planning -- Citizen participation; City planning -- Virginia -- Richmond; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond; Virginia Commonwealth University; Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
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_taylorselma_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History