Sen. Henry L. Marsh III-Oral History
Visit VCU Libraries' Voices of Freedom where you can access video oral histories of twelve leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. Transcripts of the complete interviews are also available from this site. Throughout Black History Month, we will spotlight different individuals who participated in the Voices of Freedom project. Today, watch (or read) the oral history of Sen. Henry L. Marsh, III, civil rights attorney and state senator who served as Richmond's first African American Mayor, from 1977 through 1982.
Sen. Marsh discusses what it meant to confront Richmond's white power structure and become the first African American mayor of the city. Other topics discussed by Marsh in the interview include growing up in segregated Virginia, his first meeting and then working with Oliver W. Hill, Sr., and the role of Massive Resistance in creating Civil Rights leaders in Virginia.
-- Ray Bonis, Special Collections and Archives.
