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Date of Interview
1-15-2000
Interviewees
Knight, Allen, 1926-
Accessibility Note
Content is digitally accessible 2008.
Interviewer
Waller, Sheila; 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. In this interview, Allen Knight discusses his life growing up in the Carver neighborhood of Richmond, Va.; memories of his childhood; and the effects of desegregation on the community and his career. He also describes moments of change in the Carver community; the roles of men; problems facing the neighborhood; and his career in radio including his job as the first black disc jockey in Richmond.
Subject
Knight, Allen, 1926- -- Interviews; African American disc jockeys -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Interviews, Knight, Allen, 1926- -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes; Segregation -- Virginia -- Richmond; 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_knightallen_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Oral History | United States History