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Interviewee
Hopkins, Calvin
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, Calvin Hopkins discusses his family background and his upbringing in Goochland County, Virginia. He describes his experiences attending Second Union School in the 1950s, including memories of the principal and teachers, student activities, the physical layout of the school, class subjects, and school resources. He also recalls his experiences as a substitute bus driver for Second Union School and recounts his experiences serving in the Air Force in the 1960s through the 1980s. Calvin Hopkin discusses how his educational background in Goochland County prepared him for his life after school, and comments on the impact a segregated education had on him and the community. He also describes efforts to preserve the Second Union building and convert it for use as a Rosenwald school museum.
Personal Name Subject
Hopkins, Calvin -- Interviews; Hopkins, Calvin -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes
Corporate Name Subject
Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
Topical Subject
African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; School buildings -- Conservation and restoration -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American schools -- Museums -- Virginia -- Goochland County ; African American schools -- Curricula -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American teachers -- 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: Calvin Hopkins 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_hopkinscalvin_interview.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History