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Part one. Civil rights attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker recalls the Negro national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and the song, “We Fought Every Race’s Battle But Our Own.” Poor picture quality...
Part one. Students sit on The Lawn at the University of Virginia and discuss Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, James Nabrit, and Samuel Tucker. Each student explains why he/she got invol...
Part one. Dr. Walter Ridley discusses his experience at Howard University, Virginia State University, and the University of Virginia. When he was admitted to the University of Virginia in 1950, Col...
Part one. Civil rights attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker argues that the Brown v. Board of Education decision didn't mandate immediate desegregation, so it took years of court cases make it happen slo...
Footage of cocktail conversations during reception for Old Dominion Bar Association convention. Participants unknown. Footage of drive through Chicago to the Supreme Life Building, footage inside t...
Part one. Law professor Jack Greenberg's class discusses executive governmental determination of states of emergencies, such as in South Africa during Apartheid and in the United States during Japa...
Elwood, William A; Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-1998
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Part one. Judge Collins Seitz recalls his childhood and schooling, the University of Delaware, the University of Virginia law school, and the DuPont scholarship. Part two. Mr. Seitz reports that di...
Elwood, William A; Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-1998
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Part one. Civil rights attorney and professor Jack Greenberg talks about his involvement with the NAACP civil rights defense fund. He recalls his work on a Japanese citizen relocation rights case. ...
Elwood, William A; Higginbotham, A. Leon (Aloyisus Leon), 1928-1998
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Part one. Civil rights attorney Louis Redding recalls his family, childhood, and going to Brown University. Part two. Mr. Redding tells his family’s history at Brown. After Harvard Law School, he r...
Part one. Journalist John Norton describes the education situation in Clarendon County, South Carolina. At 7:18, footage of Clarendon County, South Carolina, including rural roads, Liberty Hill Chu...
Part one. Judge Higginbotham asserts that the United States Constitution was not revelant to African Americans when it was written except to further enslave them. Judge Higginbotham offers a legal ...
Part one. Alice Jackson Stuart recounts her experiences as the first African American student to apply to the University of Virginia. When Donald Gaines Murray applied to University of Maryland Sch...
Part one. J. Clay Smith talks about Charles Hamilton Houston as the architect of the modern civil rights movement. From 3:50 to 10:40, footage of Houston and William Hastie portraits. From 10:40 to...
Part one. Attorney Oliver Hill reviews Virginia's policy of Massive Resistance, the General Assembly's Boatwright committee and Thompson committee, Virginia courts and judges, and the people placem...
Part one. Professor Beulah Johnson reviews being a teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama, living in a segregated society, what the "black" part of town was like, voter registration, her involvement with the...
Part one. Civil rights attorney Charles Morgan remembers Freedom Summer of 1964 and recalls hearing when Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman were missing. Mr. Morgan says that the system of justice in t...
Part one. Judge Constance Baker Motley recalls her childhood and education, including her first experience with Jim Crow. The Gaines case in 1938 influenced her to become a lawyer. Clarence Blakesl...
Part one. Footage of Montgomery, Alabama. At 8:00, Judge Dolores R. Boyd interview begins at her home in Montgomery. Part two. Judge Boyd offers opinions on the so-called New South, desegregation v...
Part one. Civil rights attorney Donald Watkins talks about Montgomery’s challenges, like the Confederate Flag flying on the Alabama Capitol. He also covers George Wallace, the continuing fight for ...
Drewary Brown talks about social and economic life in Charlottesville during the civil rights era and in 1987. Mr. Brown walks down the Mall in Charlottesville. At 12:37, interview with Florence Br...
Florence Bryant advocates the teaching of African American history. She tells about her own life. At 7:49 interview with Mr. Williams begins. Mr. Williams discusses the historical importance of the...
Part one. Drewary Brown talks about social and economic life in Charlottesville during the civil rights era and in 1987. Mr. Brown walks down the Mall in Charlottesville. At 12:37, interview with F...
Part one. Footage of Charlottesville house at 407 Ridge Street. At 1:00, interview with Frances Brand in her art gallery in Charlottesville. She describes her series of paintings, called "Firsts," ...
Part one. Footage of exteriors of houses (and William Elwood) until 8:55. Then civil rights attorney Fred Gray discusses Alabama lawyers, Arthur Shores, and becaming a lawyer in order to try civil ...
Part one. Civil rights activist Gardner Bishop talks about meeting with Charles Hamilton Houston to get money for a lawyer to represent the Consolidated Parents Group. Houston sent a letter on the ...
Part one. Author Genna Rae McNeil offers insight on Charles Hamilton Houston's privileged upbringing, education, and early career. Houston served in the military during World War I, and the extreme...
Mr. Rader recalls his support of public schooling in Virginia during Massive Resistance in order to sustain economic development within the commonwealth. At 5:30, interview with George R. Ferguson ...
Part one. Journalist Brandy Ayers describes the Willie Brewster murder trial, which featured the shooting of indicted killer Damon Strange by Jimmy Glenn Knight in the courthouse during the grand j...
Part one. Civil rights attorney and professor J. Clay Smith discusses the beginning of Howard University Law School and John Mercer Langston. Mr. Smith says the law school's mission was always to m...
Part one. Professor Jack Bass talks about Judge J. Waites Waring and his daring decisions. Mr. Bass also recalls the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applying a broad interpretation of Brown v. Board...
Part one. James Duren explains how he became an activist for education in Clarendon County, South Carolina, by uncovering corruption in Clarendon School District One. He formed a parents group that...
Part one. Footage of Chester High School band and football team, Chester, South Carolina. Part two and three. Principal Jeff Brown gives a tour of Chester High School, Chester, South Carolina. Part...
Part one. Footage of classes at Scott's Branch High School in Clarendon County, South Carolina, and some rural housing. At 13:41, Journalist John Norton, an education reporter for a Southern newspa...
Part one. Footage of Summerton, Clarendon County, South Carolina, the origin of the Briggs v. Elliott case, which was part of Brown v. Board of Education. At 5:10, interview with Clarendon School D...
Part one. Civil rights attorney Joseph Rauh talks about his clerkships to the US Supreme Court for both Justices Cardozo and Frankfurter. He discusses the 1941 Executive Order by President Franklin...
Part one. Civil right attorney Juanita Mitchell gives a brief history of the life of Charles Hamilton Houston. She describes Houston's legal case to admit Donald Gaines Murray to the University of ...
Part one. Judge Juanita Kidd Stout remembers hearing Charles Houston speak in 1937 in the Gaines case in Missouri and describes what it was like in the courtroom. She talks about becoming a lawyer,...
Part one. Footage of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund offices including that of civil rights attorney, professor, and NAACP director counsel Julius L. Chambers. Part two. Mr. Chambers d...
Part one. Mrs. Leone Lane describes her career as a teacher in Chester, South Carolina. J.W. Greene joins the interview at 7:26. Part two. Mrs. Leone Lane and J.W. Greene discuss the effects of int...
Part one. Historian William H. Harbaugh describes the irony of John W. Davis defending the separate but equal doctrine in Brown v. the Board of Education and explains why Davis took the case as its...
Part one. Judge Matthew Perry recalls his service in the US Army during World War II in Europe. His travels overseas allowed him to participate in a society without segregation. He discusses his up...
Part one. Civil rights activist Modjeska Simkins discusses her childhood in South Carolina and the influence of her grandmother, who was a slave. She tells vivid stories of her family's ordeals wit...
Part one. History professor Jeff Norrell talks in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama, across the street from the 16th St. Baptist Church, about demonstrations there in 1963. He remarks on the...
Part one. Shots of Beulah Johnson's Tuskegee house and neighborhood. At 3:40 change to William Elwood interviewing Mayor Johnny Ford outside Tuskegee municipal building about the impact of the Voti...
Part one. After serving in World War II, Wiley Branton returned to discriminatory voter registration laws in his home state of Arkansas. He participated in voter education and was arrested and conv...
Part one. Footage of Monticello exterior. At 6:18, interview with history professor William H. Harbaugh at Monticello. Mr. Harbaugh talks about John W. Davis as the greatest appellate attorney and ...
Part one. Attorney and former Secretary of Transportation William Coleman reveals the story behind his clerkship appointment to Justice Frankfurter, what Frankfurter was like as a justice, and his ...
Part one. Footage of Pennsylvania Avenue moving toward the Capitol. At 9:42, footage of Monticello interiors. Part two. Footage of Monticello interiors. Part three. Footage of Monticello interiors ...
Part one. Footage of Clinton College and Friendship College in South Carolina. Part two. Footage of road in South Carolina. At 15:04 footage of South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia. Part three....
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola; Freeman, Anne Hobson, 1934-
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Part one. Civil rights attorneys Oliver Hill and S.W. Tucker discuss the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, including the meaning of "with all deliberate speed." They remark upon how long i...
Elwood, William A; Kulish, Mykola; Hill, Oliver W., 1907-2007
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Part one. Civil rights attorney Oliver Hill and law professor A.E. Dick Howard discuss the Constitutional Revision Commission of Virginia in 1968 in front of the Capitol in Richmond. They go over V...
Elwood, William A; Morgan, Charles, 1930-2009; Kulish, Mykola
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Part one. Attorney Charles Morgan and US Congressman John Lewis discuss many topics, including: Alabama legally disenfranchising African Americans with voting registration requirements like the pol...
Elwood, William A; Norton, James A. (James Adolphus)
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Part one. Dr. Stephen Wright, former president of Fisk University and prominent educator, is presented by James "Dolph" Norton for the Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. Dr. W...
Oral history interview with Cordel Faulk, class of 2001, via Zoom, on March 13, 2024. Faulk discussed his education, his time at UVA as a law student, and his activities to recruit more LGBT+ stude...
Oral history interview with Chloe Fife, class of 2022, via Zoom, on March 4, 2024. Fife discussed her time as a member and president of UVA Law’s chapter of Lambda Law Alliance, highlighting the gr...
Oral history interview with Edwin Finch, class of 1970, and Frank McDermott, class of 1970. Finch and McDermott discuss the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam...
Oral history interview with W. Lawrence Fitch regarding his work with the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy in the 1980s and 1990s as well as the institute’s impact on the field of me...
Diane Davis-Wagner was born Diane Davis in 1947 and grew up in Mount Herman, a Black working class neighborhood in central Portsmouth, Virginia. In this September 2023 interview, she discusses the ...
Helen Davis was born in Pennsylvania in 1927 and grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. Her mother worked as a teacher and her father worked in coal mines in Pennsylvania and then later as a rigger at th...
Kim Sudderth is a community leader and advocate for racial justice with the Norfolk branch of the NAACP, and the first Black woman to serve as Vice Chair of the Norfolk Planning Commission, beginni...
Lathaniel Kirts was born in 1988 and grew up in the Norview community of Norfolk, Virginia. In this oral history interview, he describes his experiences as an honor roll student in Norfolk public s...
Lawrence Turner was born and raised in the southeast community of Newport News. In this interview, Turner describes how his life has been shaped by mentorship he has received within his community, ...
Ray Smith was born in Douglas Park, Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1954. His father worked in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and when the city of Portsmouth built the interstate in Douglas Park, his family ...
Sharon Johnson is a lifelong resident of Norfolk, Virginia. She has lived in the Bruces’ Park neighborhood in midtown since 1954.
Track 1: This interview discusses Johnson’s life and family, incl...
Vernon Crump was born in 1929 in Portsmouth, Virginia, and has been a leader in civil rights work in the city since he was 25 years old. Crump’s roots in the area extend for generations. Crump’s gr...
A documentary film series and website about Virginia's history since the Civil War.
Episode 1– New Deal Virginia explores two significant changes in Virginia history: the creation of Shenandoah N...
"In this talk I will examine the idea of historical practices such as reconstruction, archiving, reenactment, and counter factual history (among others) within the context of architecture and lands...
Oral interview of Michael Graetz, class of 1969, alum and former professor at UVA Law. Graetz discusses his time as a student and professor at the Law School.
Oral history interview with Edward Hogshire, class of 1970. Hogshire discusses the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the Vietnam War, and his participation in the events...
John Hong, AIA LEED AP, introduces the recent work of his firm SsD through the rubric of ‘Psychedelic Architecture.’ By reflecting on the radical social shifts of the 1960's and early 1970's he dra...
H5P is a digital toolset for authoring content online. Content creators can design interactive videos, presentations, quizzes, and much more. H5P is used for interactive content creation in OER, ...
Oral history interview with UVA Law Professor A. E. Dick Howard, class of 1961, the longest serving professor at the University of Virginia at his retirement in 2024. Howard discusses his time as a...
Oral interview of Carolyn Ikari, class of 1993, via Zoom, on March 15, 2022. Discussion of Ikari’s tenure as president of Virginia Law Women (VLW) and VLW programs and activities of that period. Di...
Creation of accessible materials is essential to compliance with UVA's standards and guidelines; moreover, it is critical to creating an inclusive and engaged learning environment for all students....
The mission of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission is to guide the orderly growth and development of the City through the preparation and maintenance of a Comprehensive Plan; preparation of t...
It's Love Data Week! At UVA Library’s Research Data Services we help researchers understand how to keep their data organized and well-managed. For Love Data Week 2025, we talked to Kristen Schwendi...
Video integration is an effective way to take OER creation to the next level. Creating videos in a manner that allows for reuse and remixing requires a mindful approach to planning, recording, and ...
Randall Griffin was born and raised in 1967 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and spent time as a young child in Lanett, Alabama, where his mother’s family worked as sharecroppers. Griffin discusses his C...
As part of the annual Southeast Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) at the University of Virginia, Librarian for African American & African Studies Katrina Spencer gathered three panelists...
Dr. Stephen Kellert spoke to participants at the Biophilic Cities Launch about the ethical and value changes that need to occur to achieve biophilic design in cities. He argued for a theory of citi...
Oral history interview with H. Lane Kneedler, class of 1969, lecturer, and former UVA Law assistant dean and professor. Kneedler discusses the events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 ...
Oral history interview with David Levy, class of 1970, in Fairfax, VA. Levy discusses his experiences in law school at UVA and his involvement as a legal marshal in the student strike in May 1970 a...
Oral history interview with Gerald J. MacFarlane, class of 1970, at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA. MacFarlane discusses events surrounding the UVA student strike in May 1970 against the V...
Oral history interview with Neil McBride, class of 1970, over Zoom in Charlottesville, VA, and Knoxville, TN. McBride discusses the UVA student strike in May 1970 over the Vietnam War, and his part...
Oral history interview of Mary Jane McFadden, class of 1974, via Zoom, on October 23, 2020. McFadden discussed her undergraduate experience at Ohio State and how she chose UVA Law. Review of her ro...
Blue Desert (video installation presented in the OCH Lobby)
Peter Swendsen, music; Rian Brown Orso and Geoff Pingree, video
Migration Patterns (part 1)
Leah Barclay
Eroding
Fjóla Evans,...
AUTODIVA’S ROOM - Susan Grochmal
Vestigial Wings - Eli Stine
The Gate is Open - Aiman Khan
Integration - Daniel Arvelo-Perez
Rain Shadow No. 2 - Ben Luca Robertson
Quotation d0419: “Franco, Ch...
Program Notes
(Ritual music), for viola, oboe, and percussion - David Joo
This piece experiments with the trio’s ability to imitate the sounds of Korean folk music, in particular the incidental ti...
Fred Frith Trio:
Fred Frith, guitar
Jason Hoopes, bass
Jordan Glenn, drums
Special Guests: Susana Santos Silva, trumpet
Heike Liss, video
Friday, October 4, 2019 8:00 pm
Old Cabell Hall Auditor...