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Interviewee
Anthony, Eva
Interviewer
Miller, Alyce P.
Publication Date
1-31-2014
Date
2014-01-31
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, Eva Anthony discusses growing up in Maidens, Goochland County, Virginia. She describes her family background, their experiences of being the only black family in their neighborhood, and her memories of attending Beaver Dam School and Central High School. Eva Anthony also discusses the presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Goochland County in the 30s and early 40s. She describes the layout of Beaver Dam School, and recalls her memories of being a student in Goochland County. She also discusses efforts by her own and other families to get Rosenwald schools built in the area, and describes her son's experiences in being the first to integrate Goochland Elementary School.
Personal Name Subject
Anthony, Eva -- Interviews; Anthony, Eva -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes
Corporate Name Subject
Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
Topical Subject
African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; School integration -- Virginia -- Goochland County; 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
Daugherity, Brian J., 1972-; Silvent, Christopher
Source
Original oral history: Eva Anthony interview (2014-01-31), 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_anthonyeva_interview.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History