Black Voices at Rutgers · Oral History: Donaldson, Vickie, 1991

Oral History: Donaldson, Vickie, 1991

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Title: Oral History: Donaldson, Vickie, 1991
Interviewee: Donaldson, Vickie
Birth Year: 1940s approximately
Birth Place: Florida - Florida
Rutgers Graduating Class: 1972; 1982
Interviewer: Cohen, Gilbert
Location of Interview: New Jersey - Newark
Date Created: 12 November 1991
Description: Vickie Donaldson was the most prominent woman in the Black Organization of Students (BOS) and played an instrumental role in the organizaing activities surrounding the 1969 takeover of Conklin Hall. She grew up in Florida and moved with her mother in Newark in 1967. At Rutgers, she joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the campus NAACP chapter before gravitating to the BOS. She graduated from Rutgers-Newark College of Art and Sciences (NCAS) in 1972 with a degree in black studies and sociology. In 1974 she went on to obtain a graduate degree in political theory. She received her law degree from Rutgers in 1982. Since then, Vickie has served as the General Counsel to the Board of Education in Newark, as the town prosecutor in Orange, New Jersey, and is now practicing law in Newark.
Audio: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3HT2M7C
Transcript: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3HT2M7C
Related Resource: Vickie Donaldson (Rutgers African-American Alumni Hall of Fame); Inventory to the Records of the Black Organization of Students (B.O.S.) at Rutgers-Newark, 1967-1973 (RG N2/02), Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
Subject: Conklin Hall; Black Organization of Students (BOS); Rutgers University-Newark; Rutgers Alumni; Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); NAACP; Civil Rights Movement; Great Migration
Collection: Rutgers-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s Oral History Collection
Repository: Rutgers University Archives, a division of Special Collections and University Archives, located at Alexander Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Rights: Rutgers University owns the copyright in this work. You may make use of this resource, with proper attribution, for noncommercial educational, scholarly, or research purposes only. Please contact Rutgers University Libraries to obtain permission for other uses.
Identifier: SCUA-RNOH-Donaldson