Interview with Joanna Wilson Green
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Interviewees
Green, Joanna Wilson
Accessibility Note
Content is digitally accessible 2026.
Interviewer
Edwards, Ana
Producer
Ross, Jada
Description
In this interview, Green sat with Ana Edwards to discuss her experience with the East Marshall Street Well Project. She explains her professional background and how she became involved with the project. She then discusses the proper protocols and procedures associated with discovering and transporting human remains. Green addresses how these procedures and protocols help us to understand the story of the East Marshall Street Well. She then details how the project expanded and evolved over time and concludes discussing how the project should inform university actions and future findings.
Biographical Note
Ana Edwards is a public historian and community activist. Currently, she is a teaching professor in VCU's Department of African American Studies. Most of her work centers on preserving the history and public spaces associated with Gabriel and the African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom.
Joanna Wilson Green is an archeologist with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, where she has worked since 2003. She served as an expert consultant for the Family Representative Council as the FRC formulated its recommendations.
Note
This interview description and biographical information was written by Michael Dickinson.
Corporate Name Subject
Hampden-Sydney College. Medical Department--Corrupt practices; Virginia Commonwealth University--Corrupt practices; Virginia. Department of Historic Resources
Topical Subject
Reparations for historical injustices; Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation; African American cemeteries--Desecration; Body snatching; History--Virginia--Richmond; Medical colleges--Corrupt practices; Universities and colleges--Corrupt practices; Racism in medicine; Racism against Black people; Public history; Community organization; Archaeology; Archaeologists
Place of Interview
Virginia Commonwealth University, The Workshop
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 Joanna Wilson Green. 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
East Marshall Street Well Oral History Project
Contributors
Virginia Commonwealth University
Source
"Interview with Joanna Wilson Green," East Marshall Street Well Oral History Project, M 573, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
emswoh_greenjoanna_interview.mp3
Disciplines
African American Studies | Digital Humanities | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oral History | Social History | United States History