Roscoe E. Lewis

Roscoe E. Lewis was a chemistry professor at Hampton University and a scholar in the United States who led efforts to document and publish an account of African American experiences in Virginia. He was a fellow of the Rosenwald Foundation.[1]

He was born in Washington D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood.[2] He led the African American unit of the Virginia Writers' Project.[3][4]

He wrote about his work to W. E. B. Du Bois before a conference they were attending at Atoanta University.[5]

For his Writers' Project work he produced films and audiotapes.[6] Officials censored discussions of cruel punishments, forced marriages, family separations, ridicule of whites, and praise of Union soldiers from the interviews.[7] Publication of Writers' Project research from black researchers was generally obstructed.[8]

Publishings
  • "The Role of Pressure Groups" (1943)[9]
  • The Negro in Virginia

References
  1. Fund, Julius Rosenwald (October 11, 1940). "Review for the Two-year Period ..." The Fund – via Google Books.
  2. Taylor, David (July 26, 2022). "Roscoe Lewis and an Early Edition of Black History".
  3. "Ex-Slave Narratives". www.lva.virginia.gov.
  4. "Negro in Virginia, The (1940)".
  5. "Letter from Hampton Institute to W. E. B. Du Bois, March 24, 1941". credo.library.umass.edu.
  6. "Hampton University Archives". www.lyrasis.org.
  7. Gates (Jr.), Henry Louis (October 11, 1985). The Slave's Narrative. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506656-2 – via Google Books.
  8. Yetman, Norman R. (March 15, 2012). Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486131016 – via Google Books.
  9. Lewis, Roscoe E. (1943). "The Role of Pressure Groups in Maintaining Morale Among Negroes". The Journal of Negro Education. 12 (3): 464–473. doi:10.2307/2293065. JSTOR 2293065 – via JSTOR.
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