The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Forrest R. 'Hap' White tapes

Repository: Old Dominion University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives

Collection Description (Extant): Former Budget Director for the Norfolk Public Schools. Fourteen untranscribed cassette tapes contain interviews White conducted with politicians, journalists, police and other city officials from 1975 - 1991 as background for his ODU doctoral dissertation, 'School desegregation and urban renewal' and 1992 book, 'Pride and Prejudice: School Desegregation and Urban Renewal in Norfolk, 1950-1959'.

Date(s): 1975-1992

Digital Status: No

Existing IDs: MG 96

Extent: 14 cassette tapes

Language: English

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

Civil rights movements--Virginia
Journalists
Police
Politicians
School integration--Virginia--Norfolk
Urban renewal--Virginia
Virginia--Politics and government
Virginia--Race relations

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings