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Interviewee
Hardy, Thomas S.
Interviewer
Carrington, Ronald E.
Producer
Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative
Date of Interview
3-21-2003
Description
Thomas S. Hardy -- A long time resident of Surry County, Virginia, Mr. Hardy was a shipyard worker and community activist. He discussed the work that he and other activists have pursued in Surry County, Virginia. He also discussed: his life as a Korean War veteran in segregated Virginia; Isle of Wight County, Virginia; Surry Training School; Fort Pickett; Voter registration; the Surry County Improvement Association; the Surry Assembly; the Poll tax; segregation and separation of facilities in the Norfolk Navy Shipyard; the Klu Klux Klan in Surry County; Gerald Poindexter; Don Anderson and political organization.
Note
This interview was conducted March 21, 2003 at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. Ronald E. Carrington, President of Media Consultants Global, Inc. of Richmond, was the director-producer of the video taping and interviewed the interviewees. Historian Dr. Betsy Brinson conducted preliminary oral interviews. The text of the oral history was transcribed by Halasz Reporting and Video, Richmond. Other editing by the staff of Special Collections and Archives, VCU Libraries. A transcript of the interview is included as an additional file above.
Subject
Civil rights movements; Civil rights movements--United States; Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century
City/Location
Virginia
Genre
oral histories (literary genre); interviews
Local Genre
oral history; moving image; text
Type
Moving Image
Digital Format
video/mp4
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
Voices of Freedom: videotaped oral histories of leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia
Source
Voices of Freedom, James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives.
File Name
hardy_800k.mp4
Disciplines
African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's Studies