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Interviewee
Johnson, Ruth Cooke
Interviewer
Miller, Alyce P.; Daugherity, Brian J., 1972-
Publication Date
10-4-2013
Date
2013-10-04
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, Ruth Cooke Johnson discusses her youth in Goochland County, Virginia, and her parents' careers as owners of a local nightclub and restaurant, which her family continued to operate until 1988. She also discusses her memories of attending Backbone Elementary School and Central High School, which include descriptions of a typical day at school, the curriculum, the school layout, and recreational activities that were available to students. Ruth Cooke also talks about her family's involvement in the NAACP and community activism efforts at the time, highlighting her father's earlier role in the establishment of a bus program for local African American students and her daughter’s experiences attending newly-integrated schools.
Personal Name Subject
Johnson, Ruth Cooke -- Interviews; Johnson, Ruth Cooke -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes
Corporate Name Subject
Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Topical Subject
African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Goochland County; School integration -- Virginia --Goochland County; Community activists -- Virginia -- Goochland; African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American schools -- Curricula -- 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
Silvent, Christopher
Source
Original oral history: Ruth Cooke Johnson interview (2013-10-04), 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_johnsonruthcooke_interview.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History