Oral histories honor elders
By Jacqueline Raithel, Contributing Writer
History is usually written by victors, and the oppressed are rarely given a voice, but a new project through the Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia is honoring the lives of African-American elders by making sure their stories are heard.
Eighty years ago African Americans were second-class citizens with few rights, little access to education and an uncertain hope for the future. Many of Chesterfield’s elders remember those seldom-told stories because they were a part of them.
Read the full story here, in the Chesterfield Observer.
