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Appalachian Oral History Project 1.25 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

This collection contains oral history interview cassette tapes and tape logs for 23 interviews conducted by students with 25 interviewees in the local community. Most interviews were collected as part of a 1991 Appalachian Community Studies class of Professor Jean Speer of the Department of Humanities at Virginia Tech. Unless noted, interviews have not been transcribed. For some interviewees, there is a student paper based on the interview.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Appalachian Quilt Project Cassette Tapes 0.8 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Appalachian Quilt Project
Oral history project conducted by Susan Davis, who was a graduate student in the Department of Clothing, Textiles, and Related Arts at Virginia Tech. Collection consists of recorded interviews with forty-three quilt makers in Floyd and Washington counties, Virginia, about their lives and their experiences with quilt making. Transcripts for this collection are available.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Black Appalachians Oral History Project 0.4 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

The Black Appalachians Oral History Project consists of approximately twenty-five taped interviews conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University concerning Black life in Appalachia, especially in Montgomery County, Virginia.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Blacksburg Oral History Project Records 0.2 Cubic Feet 1 box

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries
Oral history project conducted by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech with residents of Blacksburg about the town's history. Collection consists of recorded interviews with eight citizens of in Blacksburg, Virginia. Transcripts for five of these interviews are currently available.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project Records 0.8 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Blackwell, Jacquelyn Butler
The Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project was a multi-phase research and educational collaborative program of the Virginia Tech University Libraries and the Women's Center at Virginia Tech. The collection includes audiocassette tapes, DAT tapes, floppy disks, background and biographical information, and transcripts of interviews with some of the first Black female students and employees at Virginia Tech. The interviews focus on the entry experience of the individual into the Virginia Tech community and the interviewees' perceptions of the climate and attitudes within the university community, particularly as pertains to race and gender.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Christiansburg Industrial Institute Oral History Project 0.4 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Cline, David

The Christiansburg Industrial Institute Oral History Project consists of oral history interviews, transcripts, field notes, and other assorted documents produced by the students of Professor David Cline in the the Fall of 2012 in association with interviews conducted with former students of the Christiansburg Industrial Institute about their childhoods, the African-American community in Southwest Virginia, the student experience at Christiansburg Industrial Institute, the quality of the curriculum and how it prepared students for further education and the workforce, the closing of the school, and subsequent preservation efforts via the Christiansburg Institute Alumni Association and Christiansburg Institute, Inc.

  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

College of Education History Records 0.6 Cubic Feet 3 boxes

The College of Education History Records primarily consist of oral history interviews regarding the history of the College of Education at Virginia Tech. Interviews were conducted in November and December of 1989 by the students of Patrick Carlton, Associate Professor of Education at Virginia Tech. The interviewees were faculty at the College of Education.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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