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Hard Times Blues Collection
Hidden History: The Black Experience in the Roanoke Valley Cassette Tapes and Transcripts
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.
Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection
The Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Burkeville, Virginia) Collection includes materials from 1926-1971. The collection contains information relating to the operation of the sanatorium from 1918-1965. The collection contains administrative papers, published works of doctors, ephemera, and images.
Lucy Randolph Letter
Two-page letter from Lucy Randolph of New Market, Virginia, to Patsy, a woman she formerly enslaved.
G. E. Roberts Letter
The G. E. Roberts Letter contains information pertaining to an African American man shooting a white doctor, Dr. Hammet, in Christiansburg, VA. The letter is written to Walter J. Reeve in Central Depot, VA on February 8, 1874.
Jacob Sherman Legal Documents
The Jacob Sherman Legal Documents contain a complaint of Jacob Sherman and the testimony of Burgess R. Linkous regarding the sale of an enslaved person in Western Virginia in 1858.
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