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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…
Black History Newspaper Articles
This collection includes various newspaper articles on African Americans from the Swannanoa Valley. Many of these articles concern African American women, including Inez Daugherty, Lib Harper, Lizzie Littlefield Wells, Addie Burgin, Jessie Lytle,…
Interview with Magnolia Thomas
Magnolia Thomas relates her experiences living with her grandparents while her mother went to New York to find work, being arrested for participating in civil rights marches while attending Elizabeth City State University, moving to Haywood County to…
Interview with Mary Choice
Mary Choice (formerly Sullivan) is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 21, 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1898, Choice discusses moving to Asheville with her family in 1927 from South…
Tags: Asheville, childhood, church, clubs, community, employment, entertainment, family, integration, Jim Crow, race relations, school
Cissy Dendy Family Collection (3)
Cissy Dendy loaned the NC Room a CD of recordings her mother Margorie McClain Dendy talking about her mother's family back to the slavery era in Buncombe County.
Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war
Cissy Dendy Family Collection (2)
Cissy talked about her family and life to NC Room staffer Zoe Rhine and volunteer Louise Maret
Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war
Cissy Dendy Family Collection (1)
Cissy Dendy came to the North Asheville Scan Day and brought a bag of family photographs. NC Room workers scanned as many photographs as they were able to that day, and recorded Cissy as she was telling them about the photographs. Cissy brought the…
Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war
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.