Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Reverend Curtis Harris
Reverend Curtis Harris
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| Other authors / contributors: | Harris, Curtis, 1924-2017, interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded Richmond, Virginia 2004 July 23.
Recorded Hopewell, Virginia 2004 October 11.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Mayor and minister Curtis West Harris was born on July 1, 1924 in Denron, Virginia. After earning his high school diploma from Carter G. Woodson High School in 1944, he attended Virginia Union University. In 1959, Harris became pastor of Union Baptist Church. In 1950, he was president of Hopewell's NAACP and participated in the Selma to Montgomery march. In 1963, he successfully fought the City of Hopewell, Virginia preventing it from building a landfill in the African American community. In 1964, Harris' two sons helped integrate Hopewell High School. In 1983, he forced the city to switch its at-large voting system to a ward system. He became the first African American to serve on the Hopewell city council. In 1996, Harris was the first African American Vice-Mayor. He became the first black mayor in 1998. In 2004, Harris' formerly segregated school high school named a library in his honor.
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