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Interviewee
Bowles, James Harold
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 second interview, James Bowles discusses his experiences on the Board of Supervisors of Goochland County, Virginia, between 1972 and 2004; efforts to address the unequal educational opportunities for blacks in Goochland County; the establishment of his medical practice in 1953 and its place in the community; and his memories of politically active figures in the Richmond and Goochland areas. He also discusses his perceptions of educational opportunities for African Americans, and the formation of the Goochland chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s in order to promote equality of educational opportunity.
Note
No transcript or tape log available.
Personal Name Subject
Bowles, James Harold -- Interviews; Bowles, James Harold -- Childhood and youth -- Anecdotes; Bowles, James Harold -- Political activity
Corporate Name Subject
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Julius Rosenwald Fund -- Buildings
Topical Subject
African American schools -- Virginia -- Goochland County; African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Goochland County; Community activists -- 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 2 (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_bowlesjames_interview_part2.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's History