Publications
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African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western
The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke, Virginia for more than a century. The lives of Roanoke's black railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. I interviewed Roanoke's African American railroad workers and chronicled stories that are a powerful testament of personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.
03
Solomon Island Sketches
I wrote the foreword, and conducted an oral history with author Vance W. Torbert, Jr. for the Library of Congress. Working with talented graphic designer Ellen Buckmaster, I managed the publication of this beautiful, oversized book of drawings by a PT Boat Captain in the South Pacific during World War II (published in 2004).
04
From Gutenberg to Gone With The Wind: Treasures from the Ransom Center
I edited and managed the publication of this keepsake book, produced to commemorate the exhibition of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, May 3, 2001 - May 3, 2002.
05
My Texas Family: An Uncommon Journey to Prosperity
I edited and managed the publication of this keepsake book, produced to commemorate the exhibition of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, May 3, 2001 - May 3, 2002.
06
Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston
An Oral History
Nannie Berger Hairston was born in West Virginia in 1921, half a century after the end of the Civil War. She attended segregated schools, graduated, married and started a family. When Nannie’s husband, John, lost his job in the coal mine, the Hairstons moved to Southwest Virginia. It was the height of Jim Crow, and yet, against great odds, she and John became leaders in the community, advocating for civil rights and social justice. Nannie Hairston’s advice was sought by the powerless as well as the powerful. At the time of her death in 2017, she had taken her place as an icon for truth, justice and love.
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​Sheree Scarborough uses Nannie Hairston’s own words to tell her story.
