The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories
Northern Virginia oral history project collection
Repository: George Mason University Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
Collection Description (CRHP): This collection includes a small segment of interviews with African Americans that address black community life and organizations, black churches, black schools, and black family life. It also includes an interviews with W. T. Woodson, former superintendent of the Fairfax County Schools; he addresses school desegregation.
Collection Description (Extant): The collection contains 96 taped interviews of Northern Virginia residents. Transcripts or abstracts accompany most of the recordings. Topics such as agriculture, development, education, health, politics, transportation, and religion, with respect to Northern Virginia in the 19th and 20th centuries, are discussed.
Digital Status: No
Existing IDs: C0030
Extent: 2.5 linear ft.
Finding Aid URL: http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/novaoralhist.html
Related Archival Items: There are some civil rights issues mentioned in both the C. Harrison Mann, Jr, Papers (http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/mann.html) and the Philip Levy Civil Rights Collection (http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/levy.html).
Interviewees: Edwin B. Henderson, Columbus C. Honesty, William West, Joseph Ellis, Laures C. Robinson, Lillian Robinson, W. T. Woodson
Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights
African American churches
Fairfax County (Va.)