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Date of Interview
5-19-2000
Interviewees
Finger, Duane
Accessibility Note
Content is digitally accessible 2008.
Interviewer
Hill, Kathryn Colwell; Abernathy, Barbara, 1941-
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. Duane Finger of the Richmond Redevelopment Housing Authority in Richmond, Va., describes his work with the housing authority and how the agency and its approach has changed during the 28 years he has worked there. He also discusses topics such as the influence of the civil rights movement on his career; housing authorities; and the city of Richmond. Mr. Finger also describes civic leaders in the Carver neighborhood in Richmond who have helped the neighborhood gain recognition; efforts to empower the neighborhood; the role of the Task Force for the Preservation of the Minority Community; and further development of the Carver neighborhood, including the issue of student housing.
Subject
Finger, Duane -- Interviews; Housing authorities -- Officials and employees -- Interviews; City planning -- Virginia -- Richmond; City planning -- Citizen participation; Community development -- Virginia -- Richmond; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond; Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
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_fingerduane_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History