Riva Green [pseudonym] interview (2024-10-11)

Authors

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Interviewees

Green, Riva

Accessibility Note

Content is digitally accessible 2025.

Interviewer

Kelly, Hope

Description

In this interview, a library board member details efforts in a Virginia county and the dynamics that played out amongst the community, the library board and the county board of supervisors when a group linked to religious communities formed that sought to control local library collections.

Note

Due to extensive redactions, only the transcript is available.

Topical Subject

Censorship; Challenged books; Prohibited books; Librarians; Librarians--Virginia; School libraries; Library trustees

City/Location

Virginia

Genre

oral histories (literary genre)

Local Genre

oral history; text

Type

Text

Digital Format

app/pdf

Language

eng

Rights Statement URL

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

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

Censorship in Virginia Libraries Oral Histories

Contributors

Virginia Library Association. Intellectual Freedom Committee

Source

Riva Green [pseudonym] interview (2024-10-11), Censorship in Virginia Libraries Oral Histories, VCU Libraries.

File Name

vacoh_greenriva_interview.wav

Disciplines

Education