Title:
Oral History Interview with Cecelia T. Tucker, Part 2 - Transcript
Creator:
Tucker, Cecelia T.
Contributor:
Vaughan, Karen (Old Dominion University Libraries)
Date:
2009-03-13
Description:
Cecelia T. [Taliaferro] Tucker joined Old Dominion University in 1991 to serve as the Assistant to the President for Community Relations and continued to serve in community relations until her retirement in 2022. Prior to joining the university, she taught high school biology and then served numerous community organizations in leadership, public relations, and fundraising positions. She was born in Martinsville, Virginia. This interview is in two parts. Part 1 discusses her personal and educational background, her recollections of growing up African-American in segregated times, her experiences with civil rights, life in Norfolk in the 1950s and 1960s, and her career as a teacher and community activist. Part 2 focuses on her tenure at ODU as Assistant to the President for Community Relations and ODU's segregated past. The interview took place in Perry Library on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Subject:
Race relations--History--20th century
Subject:
African Americans--Education--Virginia
Subject:
African Americans--Civil rights
Subject:
African Americans--Segregation
Subject:
Segregation in education
Subject:
African Americans--Virginia--Social conditions
Subject:
Poll tax--Virginia
Subject:
Suffrage--United States
Subject:
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Subject:
Teachers--Virginia--Norfolk
Subject:
School integration--Virginia--Norfolk--History--20th century
Subject:
Booker T. Washington High School (Norfolk, Va.)
Subject:
Mason, Vivian Carter
Subject:
National Urban League
Subject:
Young Men's Christian Association (Norfolk, Va.)
Subject:
Young Women's Christian Association (Norfolk, Va.)
Subject:
College administrators--United States
Subject:
Koch, James V., 1942-
Subject:
Civic leaders--Virginia--Norfolk
Subject:
Norfolk State University (Va.)
Subject:
Runte, Roseanne
Subject:
Broderick, John P.
Subject:
Tucker, Cecelia T.
Subject:
Norfolk Academy
Subject:
Norfolk Committee for the Improvement of Education (Va.)
Subject:
Norfolk Community Hospital (Va.)
Subject:
Lambert’s Point Summer Program
Subject:
Diversity in higher educataion
Subject:
College-neighborhood relations
Coverage:
Norfolk, Virginia
Media Format:
Transcripts
Source:
RG 10-2A
Collection:
Oral History Collection
Publisher:
Old Dominion University Libraries
Rights Statement:
IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rightsholder:
Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries
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Identifier:
oh-tuckerc-transcript2
