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Interviewee
Bowles, James Harold
Interviewer
Miller, Alyce P.
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, James Bowles discusses growing up in his Goochland County, Virginia, community, and recalls memories of attending Caledonia School and Fauquier Training School, including the recreational activities, curriculum, and teachers at those schools. James Bowles mentions his experiences at Virginia Union University and Meharry Medical College and describes his reasons for becoming a doctor. He discusses race relations in Goochland County; his involvement with the NAACP, and civil rights actions taken to improve conditions for teachers and students. James Bowles also describes the desegregation of Goochland schools and his daughter's experiences attending the newly-integrated Goochland High School.
Note
Small portion of audio redacted to remove personal information.
Personal Name Subject
Bowles, James Harold -- Interviews; Bowles, James Harold -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes
Corporate Name Subject
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
Topical Subject
African American neighborhoods -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; School integration -- Virginia -- Goochland County; Community activists -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American schools -- Curricula -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American teachers -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African American physicians -- Virginia -- Goochland County -- Interviews
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: James Bowles interview 1 (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_bowlesjames_interview_part1_redacted.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History