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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.
Note
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 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_crawleywaverly_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History