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Date of Interview
1-8-2000
Interviewees
Wood, Charles, 1907-2007; Wood, Mrs. Mary Jane Carter Wood
Interviewer
Waller, Sheila; Plybon, Laura
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, Charles Wood, who grew up in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va., discusses his early life in the community; his involvement with the Moore Street Baptist Church; and his career as a letter carrier in the post office. He also recalls things he liked about the Carver community when he lived there; the effect of desegregation on the community; changes within the church; anecdotes and memories of family and friends in the Carver area; and changes in race relations in the Richmond area.
Note
The audio of this interview was digitized from audio cassette, and four audio files were combined to create this digital version.
Subject
Wood, Charles, 1907- -- Interviews; Wood, Charles, 1907- -- Anecdotes; Letter carriers --Virginia -- Richmond -- Interviews; Wood, Charles, Mrs. -- Interviews; Race relations -- Virginia -- Richmond; Segregation -- Virginia -- Richmond; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions.
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_woodcharles_woodmaryjanecarter_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History