| Title: |
Melvin Hamilton
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Virginia. Carter G. Woodson Institute. Virginia Center for Digital History
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| Collection: |
Ridge Street Oral Histories
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| Description: |
Melvin Hamilton was born in South Carolina in 1915, and grew up in Tennessee. He served in the Army in World War II and served in the South Pacific. After the war he married Gertrude Maria Michie, a woman from Louisa County, Virginia, and moved to Charlottesville. Mr. Hamilton participated in this interview because he raised his family on Ridge Street in the 1940s and 1950s.
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| URL: |
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/transcripts/hamilton.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1994 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hamilton, Melvin, 1915-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1915
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| Speaker place of birth: |
South Carolina; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel
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| Age at speaking: |
79
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| Document date: |
12-Aug-1994
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| Interviewer: |
Gronlund, Julie; Toledano, Roulhac
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| Locations discussed: |
Charlottesville, VA; North America; United States; Virginia
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African Americans; Charlottesville, VA; Community; Local history; Neighborhood; North America; Oral history; Race relations; United States; Virginia
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0024780-26499
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