Alberta Parrish interview (2014-02-19)

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Interviewee

Parrish, Alberta

Interviewer

Miller, Alyce P.

Publication Date

2-19-2014

Date

2014-02-19

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, Alberta Parrish discusses growing up in Goochland County, Virginia, in the 1930s through the 1950s. She describes her racially mixed neighborhood; memories of attending Bunker Hill School, Second Union School, and Central High School; her career as a beautician; and her participation in the PTA. Alberta Parrish provides a description of the physical layout and facilities of Bunker Hill School and Second Union School. She also comments on the segregation present in her community prior to school integration.

Personal Name Subject

Parrish, Alberta -- Interviews; Parrish, Alberta -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes

Corporate Name Subject

Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings

Topical Subject

African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; School integration -- 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

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: Alberta Parrish interview (2014-02-19), 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_parrishalberta_interview.mp4

Disciplines

African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History

Alberta Parrish interview (2014-02-19)

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