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Date of Interview
1-21-2000
Interviewees
Austin, Marguerita; Gordon, Frances
Interviewer
Hawley, Carolyn; Schobitz, Rick
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. Marguerita Austin and Frances Gordon talk about their experiences growing up in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va. They discuss their early family lives; family activities; memorable individuals from the neighborhood; and changes to the Carver area brought about by desegregation.
Subject
Austin, Marguerita -- Interviews; Austin, Marguerita -- Anecdotes; Gordon, Frances -- Interviews; Gordon, Frances -- Anecdotes; Segregation -- Virginia -- Richmond; 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_austinmarguerita_gordonfrances_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History