Roscoe E. Lewis was a chemistry professor at

Hampton University Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association af ...

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. He was born in Washington D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood. He led the African American unit of the Virginia Writers' Project. He wrote about his work to

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in ...

before a conference they were attending at Atoanta University. For his Writers' Project work he produced films and audiotapes. Officials censored discussions of cruel punishments, forced marriages, family separations, ridicule of whites, and praise of Union soldiers from the interviews. Publication of Writers' Project research from black researchers was generally obstructed.

Publishings

*"The Role of Pressure Groups" (1943) *''The Negro in Virginia''

References

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