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LHF - Black History Month
This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning Black History Month in Buncombe County. Although there are multiple articles about Black History Month in general, those concerning African American women include "Ceremony Observers…
LHF - Burton Street
This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning the Burton Street community. One notable article in the collection is "A Talk with Asheville's Burton Street Ladies," which includes an interview of several African American women from…
Daugherty, Annie
This collection includes newspaper clippings and a certificate of death of Annie Daugherty, one of the main midwives for the town of Black Mountain in the early 1900s.
Tags: Allen School, Black Mountain, church, hospitals, Jim Crow, midwivery, school, slavery, YWCA
Interview with Nola Elizabeth Knuckles
Nola Elizabeth Knuckles is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in August 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born on November 25, 1910, Knuckles talks about being raised by her aunt and uncle after losing her…
Voices of Asheville Project
The Voices of Asheville Project is the work of Dorothy Joynes, who decided to "show the tapestry of the city over the last hundred years" through oral histories of people "from all walks of life, backgrounds, races and ages." She initially…
Tags: Asheville, church, college, community, education, family, Goombay, Great Depression, hate crime, housing, human relations, integration, literacy, minorities, NAACP, politics, programs, protest, race riots, racial discrimination, racial disturbances, recreation, redevelopment, religion, school board, schools, segregation, sit-ins, sororities, sports, teaching, urban development, volunteering, YMI, YWCA
Angels Unaware: Asheville Women of Color
Limited oral history paying tribute to women of color in the Asheville area. These women's lives have been molded by the circumstances of the times in which they live(d), a time when history left out the lives of black women and did not realize their…
Asheville YWCA Archive
Primarily comprises administrative papers, board minutes, annual reports, photographic materials, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks from the YWCA in Asheville. The materials document the Central YWCA, the segregated Phyllis Wheatley Branch, and…
Tags: community, integration, programs, racism, segregation, urban renewal, YWCA
AB-Organizations/General/ Social/Fraternal/Sororal- YWCA-98.9
Various newspaper clippings concerning local African Americans. Those clippings concerning black women are entitled "Colored YWCA Secures Building," "$10,000 Negro YWCA Will Be Erected Here," "Dedication of New Negro YWCA To Take Place Today," "600…
African American Communities Oral History Project: Cynthia Hallum Interview-- June 15, 2017
This is a transcription of an oral history interview taken by Friends of the North Carolina Room volunteer Pat Fitzpatrick, interviewing Asheville native, Cynthia Hallum. The interview took place on June 15, 2017 at Pack Memorial Library.
Angels Unaware: Asheville Women of Color
Limited oral history paying tribute to women of color in the Asheville area. These women's lives have been molded by the circumstances of the times in which they live(d), a time when history left out the lives of black women and did not realize their…