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Date of Interview
4-5-2000
Interviewees
West, Roy A.
Interviewer
Hawley, Carolyn; 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. In this interview, Dr. Roy West, former city councilman (1982-1994) and former mayor of Richmond (1982-1988), discusses his involvement with the Carver community in Richmond, Va. Dr. West addresses issues such as deterioration in the community; the effect of the conservation district designation on Carver; community-government relations regarding redevelopment; racial disparity in higher education; his involvement in public education; and the massive resistance movement. Dr. West also recalls the reorganization of high schools in Richmond, including leadership involved in the decision and the effect on public education and the Carver neighborhood; the work of Madeline Peters, a Carver resident who was one of the civic leaders in the community; and challenges facing the community with its relationship with VCU.
Note
The audio of this interview was digitized from audio cassette, and two audio files were combined to create this digital version.
Subject
West, Roy. A. -- Interviews; African American civic leaders -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Interviews; Richmond (Va.) -- Politics and government; City planning -- Virginia -- Richmond; Education -- Virginia -- Richmond; Race relations -- Virginia -- Richmond; Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Richmond; City planning -- Citizen participation; Community and college -- Virginia -- Richmond; Virginia Commonwealth University; 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_westroy_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History