Waverly B. Crawley interview (2000-04-27)

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Date of Interview

4-27-2000

Interviewees

Crawley, Waverly R.

Interviewer

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. Waverly Robert Crawley, Jr., who was raised in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va., recounts his memories of growing up there in the 1930s. Mr. Crawley describes the origins of his name; places he remembers from the neighborhood; individuals he admired and Carver's early origins as Sheep Hill. He also reminisces about Carver social life and conditions; effects of desegregation; and his thoughts on the future of the Carver neighborhood.

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The audio of this interview was digitized from audio cassette, and two audio files were combined to create this digital version.

Subject

Crawley, Waverly R. -- Interviews; Crawley, Waverly R. -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes; Segregation -- Virginia -- Richmond; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History.

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

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_crawleywaverly_interview.mp3

Disciplines

African American Studies | Oral History | United States History

Waverly B. Crawley interview (2000-04-27)

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