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Interviewees
Duke, Maurice
Interviewer
Hill, Kathryn Colwell Hill, Kathryn Colwell
Description
Dr. J. Maurice Duke was Professor of English at VCU for over 30 years, and was instrumental in VCU's acquisition of Richmond author James Branch Cabell's library. He authored several works on Virginia history and literature and was a photographer and book page editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is presently staff historian for the Alliance to Conserve of Old Richmond Neighborhoods. In this interview, Dr. Maurice Duke discusses three books that influenced his life, African American architecture in Richmond, Oregon Hill and the effect of construction on Richmond neighborhoods, the expansion of VCU, early interest in photography and literature, Cathedral High School, the Civil Rights Movement and VCU, his work as book editor at the Richmond Times Dispatch, and his personal interests.
Personal Name Subject
Duke, Maurice -- Interviews; Duke, Maurice -- Knowledge and learning
Corporate Name Subject
Virginia Commonwealth University -- History
Topical Subject
African American architecture -- Virginia -- Richmond; American literature -- African American authors; Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History; Literature -- Study and teaching
Geographic Subject
Oregon Hill (Richmond, Va.) -- History
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
oral histories (literary genre)
Local Genre
oral history; sound recording; text
Type
Sound; Text
Digital Format
audio/mp3
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. 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
VCU Oral History Archive
Source
Oral history and related materials of Maurice Duke (Acc: 2005-12-15), Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
ohi_dukemaurice_part02.mp3