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Hidden History: The Black Experience in the Roanoke Valley Cassette Tapes and Transcripts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Ms-1992-049
Scope and Contents
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 fifty-five interviews. Transcripts are available for thirty-six of the interviews.
Dates:
1992
Rice Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-021
Abstract
The Rice Family Papers include decades of letters to and from four generations of the decendents of Jerry Rice of Campbell County, Virginia. The majority of the letters were sent to Nannie Mae (Rice) Banks but there are also letters addressed to her father, Fletcher, her mother, Georgianna, and other members of the family. These letters document the experiences of this family from Southwest Virginia as they lived through, fought, and died in, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War...
Dates:
1892 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1962
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- Depressions -- 1929 1
- Women -- History 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
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- Banks family 1
- Banks, (William) Andrew (1903-1945) 1
- Banks, Nannie Mae (Rice) (1895-2000) 1
- Board, Lillie May (Rice) (1899-1956) 1
- Burton, Owen 1
- Day, Idella (Rice) (1910-1963) 1
- Payne, Solomon Gomarh, Pfc. (1895-1962) 1
- Rice family (Jerry Lee Rice, ca.1831-1854) 1
- Rice, Fletcher Roland, Sr. (1866-1966) 1
- Rice, Georgianna "Anna/Annie" (Jennings) (1881-1928) 1
- Rice, Gracie G. (Baldwin) (1897-1979) 1
- Rice, James Cornelius, Pvt. (1916-1963) 1
- Rice, Naymon Eddieray, Sr., Pfc. (1914-1955) 1
- Rogers, James "Jimmy" Lester, Pvt. (1920-1945) 1
- Watts, Laura B. (Rice) (1897-1958) 1 + ∧ less
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