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Date of Interview
2-21-2000
Interviewees
Hawley, Carolyn, 1959-; McBride, James
Accessibility Note
Content is digitally accessible 2008.
Interviewer
Davis, Trina
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. Carolyn Hawley and James McBride, residents of the Carver neighborhood in Richmond, Va., talk about their respective experiences. Carolyn Hawley, who was born in Carver, discusses her home, childhood, and school life in Carver. James McBride, who moved into the neighborhood in 1987, describes the changes he's seen in Carver; comparisons with the Church Hill area; and challenges facing the community. Carolyn Hawley and James McBride also discuss efforts by community leaders who have worked on behalf of the neighborhood; changes in the neighborhood; efforts to address the problem of abandoned properties; the expansion of VCU; community planning issues; and expectations regarding the Living Newspaper Project.
Note
The audio of this interview was digitized from audio cassette, and two audio files were combined to create this digital version.
Subject
Hawley, Carolyn, 1959- -- Interviews; Hawley, Carolyn, 1959- -- Anecdotes; McBride, James -- Interviews; McBride, James -- Anecdotes; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond; City planning -- Virginia -- Richmond; City planning -- Citizen participation; Community development -- 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_hawleycarolyn_mcbridejames_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History