Interview with Sen. Henry L. Marsh, III
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    Interviewee

    Marsh, Henry L.

    Accessibility Note

    Content is digitally accessible 2024.

    Interviewer

    Carrington, Ronald E.

    Producer

    Virginia Civil Rights Movement Video Initiative

    Date of Interview

    3-20-2003

    Description

    Henry L. Marsh, III, civil rights attorney, state senator, first African American Mayor of Richmond, he discusses what it meant to confront Richmond's white power structure and become mayor. Other topics include: growing up in Smithfield, Virginia and in Richmond; his first meeting and then working with Oliver W. Hill, Sr.; his work with the NAACP Youth Council; Virginia Union University; the role of Massive Resistance in creating Civil Rights leaders in Virginia; Rev. Curtis Harris; and various race discrimination cases in employment (including Philip Morris) and education.

    Note

    This interview was conducted March 20, 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

    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

    marsh_800k.mp4

    Disciplines

    African American Studies | American Studies | Oral History | Political History | Public History | Social History | United States History | Women's Studies

    Interview with Sen. Henry L. Marsh, III

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