Integration: Through Teachers' Eyes

Access and use

Location of collection:
Longwood University
Archives and Special Collections
Greenwood Library
Longwood University
401 Redford Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (434) 395-2432
Fax: (434) 395-2453
Restrictions:

Currently, the Greenwood Library Archives does not have access to the recordings associated with these transcripts.

All consent and release forms for these materials are present and there are no restrictions to access or use of these materials for research purposes.

Summary

Extent:
.15 Linear Feet 1 Legal Size Hollinger Box
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of transcripts from 12 oral history interviews conducted in 2003. These interviews cover topics that include: the 1951 student strike in Farmville, VA, the struggle for integration, Brown v. Board of Education, and other civil rights related issues.

Biographical / historical:

Integration: Through Teachers' Eyes is an oral history project undertaken in 2003 by the Sociology 320: Sociology of Education class at Longwood University. The students in this class conducted 12 interviews with teachers who had experienced firsthand the struggle for school integration in the United States prior to and after the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. The interviews also cover the closing of the schools in Prince Edward County and the 1951 student strike at the Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia.

Custodial history:

These transcripts were sent to the Greenwood Library Archives by Dr. Larissa Fergeson from the Longwood University History Department.