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Interviewee
Anderson, Francis
Interviewer
Miller, Alyce P.
Publication Date
3-21-2014
Date
2014-03-21
Description
An interview conducted as part of the Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015, documenting education in Goochland County, Virginia, particularly the impact of the Rosenwald Schools, and the differences between the education offered to white and black students during the period the Rosenwald Schools operated. In this interview, Francis Anderson discusses her childhood growing up in Goochland County, Virginia, including her memories of attending Chapel Hill School, Backbone School and Central High School. She describes a typical day at Chapel Hill School, along with memories of classes, special events and activities, and teachers that lived in the community. Francis Anderson discusses the effect her experiences at Goochland County schools had on the rest of her life and career; her reaction at the time to the closure of schools in Prince Edward County; and the impact a segregated education had on her and other students. She also talks about her children's experiences attending newly-integrated schools in Goochland County; the establishment of a local NAACP chapter; and her careers as a teacher's aide and a community service worker.
Personal Name Subject
Anderson, Francis -- Interviews; Anderson, Francis -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes
Corporate Name Subject
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
Topical Subject
African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; Community activists -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American schools -- Curricula -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American teachers -- Virginia -- Goochland County; Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Goochland County
Geographic Subject
Goochland County (Va.) -- Race relations
City/Location
Goochland County (Va.)
Genre
oral histories (literary genre)
Local Genre
oral history; moving image
Type
Moving Image
Digital Format
video/mp4
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and the copyright is held by Brian J. Daugherity, Alyce Miller, and Christopher Silvent. 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
Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015
Contributors
Daugherity, Brian J., 1972-; Silvent, Christopher
Source
Original oral history: Francis Anderson interview (2014-03-21), Goochland County Rosenwald Schools Oral History Project, 2013-2015, M 501, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
goo_andersonfrancis_interview.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History