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Interviewee
Johnson, Mattie Lee Harris
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, Mattie Lee Harris Johnson discusses her family background and her childhood growing up on a farm in Goochland County, Virginia. She describes her memories of attending Chapel Hill School, Second Union School, Central Elementary School, and Central High School; including details of classes, taking the bus to school, her favorite teachers, and recreational activities. She also reminisces about the physical layout of the Chapel Hill School. Mattie Lee Harris Johnson notes how she attended Smith-Madden Business College after high school, and discusses her subsequent employment at the Department of Education. She also talks about racial segregation she encountered growing up, and describes the benefits she received from having attended Goochland County schools.
Personal Name Subject
Johnson, Mattie Lee Harris -- Interviews; Johnson, Mattie Lee Harris -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes
Corporate Name Subject
Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
Topical Subject
African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American neighborhoods -- 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: Mattie Lee Harris Johnson 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_johnsonmattieleeharris_interview.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History