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Document Details
| Title: | Vera Jones Allen |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | University of Virginia. Carter G. Woodson Institute. Virginia Center for Digital History |
| Collection: | Civil Rights in US and Virginia History Collection |
| Description: | Vera Jones Allen worked for the Prince Edward County school system at the time of the 1951 student strike. She is the mother of Edwilda Allen Isaac, who was a student leader in the student strike of 1951 in Prince Edward County, an event that led to Dorothy Davis v. Prince Edward County School Board, one of the five cases decided in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. |
| URL: | http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu:8090/xslt/servlet/ramanujan.XSLTServlet?xml=/vcdh/xml_docs/modernva/modernva_transcripts.xml&xsl=/vcdh/xml_docs/modernva/interview_modernva.xsl&level=single&id=Vera_Jones_Allen |
| Original Language: | English |
| Video: | [Video available] |
| Audio: | [Audio available] |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 2000 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Allen, Vera Jones |
| Speaker gender: | Female |
| Speaker race: | Black |
| Document date: | 2000 |
| Interviewer: | Gilliam, George; Mills, Mason |
| Locations discussed: | North America; United States; Virginia |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | African Americans; African Americans--Segregation; Civil rights movements--United States; Civil rights movements--Virginia; North America; Oral history; United States; Virginia |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0024817-26553 |