Collections : [Virginia Union University]

Virginia Union University

L. Douglas Wilder Library
Virginia Union University
1500 North Lombardy Street
Richmond, VA 23220
Primary Collecting Areas:
The Archives collects historical records of the campus, and the Special Collections endeavors to collect the history of African American Richmond. The Archives and Special Collections houses the personal papers of L. Douglas Wilder, Virginia's 66th Governor (1990-1994) and first elected African American governor in the United States.
Description:

We are proud of our history as one of the nation's older historically black colleges (HBCUs), founded in 1865. Our library was formerly the William J. Clark Library located in the historic landmark Belgian Friendship Building given to the University by the government of Belgium in 1941.

In 1997 we relocated to a new facility on campus named after Virginia Union's most celebrated alumnus: L. Douglas Wilder, humanitarian, civil rights leader and the first elected African-American governor (1990-1994) in the nation. The library houses The Wilder Collection which is a very popular national and international attraction.

POC: Selicia Allen
Phone: (804) 278-4117
Fax: (804) 257-5818
Start Over Repository Virginia Union University Subjects Civil rights--United States

Gordon Blaine Hancock Collection, 1943-1975 205 items (0.5 linear feet)

Hancock, Gordon Blaine, 1884-1970

Materials in this collection are congratulatory letters, greeting cards, photographs, miscellaneous scrapbook items, annual reports, teaching materials and oversized pages of laminated clippings. Materials reveal the activities of the Southern Regional Council and Tuskegee Institute. The congratulatory letters are from friends and colleagues on the occasion of Dr. Hancock’s 20th anniversary as pastor of Moore Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. The miscellaneous scrapbook items are mostly paper clippings, postcards and photographs. Dr. Hancock’s teaching materials include course outlines and teaching notes from Virginia Union University in the early 1950s. The oversized pages of laminated clippings are mostly photocopies of Dr. Hancock’s syndicated news column, “Between the Lines.”

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