Background Materials (SdArch5-1)

Materials

2 digitized documents: one list of people buried at Newtown Cemetary and one list of black voters in the early 1900s in Rockingham County (researched by Johnny Dove)

8 photographs featuring Lucy Simms

Identifier

SdArch no. 5-1

Format

36 jpeg files

Rights

Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of James Madison University’s Libraries & Educational Technologies’ Special Collections (540) 568-3612, library-special@jmu.edu.

Personal Names

Lucy F. Simms,

Subjects

Curry, James — Interviews Curry, Peggy — Interviews Stuart, Minnie Bell — Interviews Nickens, Mrs. Willie — Interviews Wells, Helen Irvin — Interviews Webb, Roberta Morgan — Interviews Johnson, Robert Earl Simms, Lucy, 1855(9?)-1934. Harris, W. N. P Augusta Street Methodist Church (Staunton, Va.) Newtown Cemetery (Harrisonburg, Va.) Lucy F. Simms School (Harrisonburg, Va.) African American athletes — United States — Biography African American teachers and the community — Sources African American neighborhoods — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Sources African American cemeteries — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Sources African American churches — History — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Sources African Americans — Education (Elementary) — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Sources African Americans — Education (Secondary) — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Sources African Americans — Virginia — Harrisonburg — History — Sources African Americans — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Social life and customs — Sources African Americans — Virginia — Harrisonburg — Economic conditions — Sources Newtown (Rockingham County, Va.) — History

Place Names

Effinger Street School, Lucy F. Simms School, Newtown Cemetery

Photographer

Unknown

Collection Title

African Americans in Harrisonburg Oral History Collection

Collection Number

SdArch5

Recommended Citation

SdArch no. 5-1, Lucy Simms Remembered Oral History Collection, SdArch, Special Collections, Carrier Library, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.