African American history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Hidden History: The Black Experience in the Roanoke Valley Cassette Tapes and Transcripts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-1992-049
Scope and Content
Oral history project designed to interview African-American residents of Roanoke, Virginia, on the cultural, social, and political history of blacks in the city. Collection consists of approximately forty-six interviews. Transcripts available for forty of the interviews.
Dates:
1992 - 1992
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Photograph, Portrait of a Tenant Farmer Known as Aaron, Claksville, Va., c. 1930 (Ms2009-110)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2009-110_Photo4
Photograph, Portrait of a Tenant Farmer Known as Aaron with a Horse, Clarksville, Va., c. 1930 (Ms2009-110)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2009-110_Photo6
Photograph, Second View of Tenant Farmer's House, Clarksville, Va., c. 1930 (Ms2009-110)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2009-110_Photo3
Photograph, View of Tenant Famers on the Front Porch of a Tenant House, Clarksville, Va., c. 1930 (Ms2009-110)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2009-110_Photo5
Photograph, View of Tenant Farmers and Tenant House, Clarksville, Va., c. 1930 (Ms2009-110)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2009-110_Photo1
Photograph, View of Tenant Farmer's House, Clarksville, Va., c. 1930 (Ms2009-110)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2009-110_Photo2
Lucy Randolph Letter
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-031
Scope and Content
Two page letter from Randolph of New Market, Virginia, to Patsy, her former slave.
Dates:
n.d.
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Stereoview Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-056
Scope and Contents
The collection includes stereoviews, mostly of Civil War-era or Civil War-related images. Items in the collection are individually described in the contents list of the finding aid.
Please note: Stereoviews can be viewed without equipment, but Special Collections does have a stereoscope available upon request.
Dates:
1865, n.d.
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech