African Americans -- Segregation -- West Virginia
Subject
Subject Source: Local Lc
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4208
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles,...
Dates:
1775-2018 (Includes facsimiles); Majority of material found within 1970-2011
Dana Brooks, Dean, West Virginia University, College of Applied Human Sciences, School of Sport Sciences, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4703
Scope and Contents
The papers of Dana Brooks include materials related to his faculty research about Black athletes and school athletics programs in pre- and post-segregation West Virginia and other materials related to his work leading the College of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (CPASS, known as the School of Sport Science since 2022). Series 1 (boxes 1 and 2) includes research materials compiled by Dean Brooks regarding athletics at West Virginia’s Black high schools and colleges and...
Dates:
1932-2018; Majority of material found within 1990s-2000s
Stephen Capaldo Collection of Material from Southeastern West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4534
Scope and Contents
Collection includes company pay, union dues book, and training certificates (ca. 1939-1974) pertaining to United Mine Workers of America member Fred Capaldo, an Italian immigrant who worked for Leckie Smokeless Coal Company in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Collection also includes correspondence, photographs, etc., about Gap Mills, Monroe County, WV, as well as a 1906-1907 souvenir program for Bellview School, where Black children of Gap Mills received education. Also contains a brochure...
Dates:
ca. 1906-2001
Storer College Administrative and Operational Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1322
Scope and Contents
Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.The collection is organized into eighteen series, including:Series 1. Correspondence; 1865-1953; boxes...
Dates:
1865-1960; Majority of material found within 1930s-1950s
Thomas W. Gavett, Chairman of the West Virginia Human Rights Commission, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1887
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Dr. Thomas William Gavett, collected and created while he was chairman of the West Virginia Human Rights Commission between 1961 and 1966. Subjects of interest include equal employment opportunities, discriminatory application practices, instances of racial discrimination throughout West Virginia, and actions taken by the WV HRC to combat racial discrimination.
Dates:
1958-1973 and undated
West Virginia University, Discrimination Petition
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2043
Overview
Petition submitted by "students at West Virginia University" to the "Office of Personnel" dated 18 April 1968 regarding perceived discriminatory practices. The grievances regard issues of open, non-discriminatory housing; discriminatory hiring practices; and membership of University officials in segregated clubs. No specific individuals or incidents are identified.
Dates:
1968
Writers' Program in West Virginia Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0454
Scope and Contents
Papers created by the Writers' Program in West Virginia (ca. 1935-1942), a part of the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA). For more information regarding this Program, please see the Biographical / Historical Note.The Writers' Program collection is arranged into series established on the basis of topics. This topical arrangement simply emerged from the documentation resulting from the subject-based research assignments delegated to the writers.There are six...
Dates:
ca. 1850-1942; Majority of material found within ca. 1935-1942