This photograph collection includes photos of African American women with their children and families at church, farming, at home, and at school. Notable women include Emma Greenlee, Hattie Stepp, Lucinda Stepp, Martha Stepp, and Ruby Moore.
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…
The Isaiah Rice Photograph Collection contains a sample of over 1000 photographs that document the African-American community in Asheville, NC, from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. The Isaiah Rice Collection provides an important photographic…
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.
Photo of a small cabin in an open field with three African American women and three children standing or sitting in the dirt yard outside the cabin door. Seems to date back to the 1880s.
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…