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Date of Interview
5-30-2000
Interviewees
Hill, Jim; Kleffner, Doug
Accessibility Note
Content is digitally accessible 2008.
Interviewer
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. In this interview, Jim Hill and Doug Kleffner, residents of the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va., discuss how they came to live in the Carver community; the renovation of their house; and their role in the community association. They also review the direction the neighborhood is moving in; attitudes in the community toward VCU; their experience moving to a predominantly black neighborhood; and their feelings about and perspectives of living in Carver.
Subject
Hill, Jim -- Interviews; Kleffner, Doug -- Interviews; Housing rehabilitation -- Virginia -- Richmond; Citizens' associations -- Virginia -- Richmond; City planning -- Citizen participation; Community and college -- Virginia -- Richmond; Virginia Commonwealth University; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions.
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_hilljim_kleffnerdoug_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History