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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…

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…

This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning African American history. African American women mentioned in this collection include Sarah Gudger, Kat Debrow, Lucy S. Herring, Inez Daugherty, and Oralene Graves.

This collection includes various newpaper clippings concerning African American awards banquets from 1992 and 1993. Both African American men and women received awards. Those women who received awards were Sherri Linton, Angie Benton, Annie Mae…

The first document in this collection is a book entitled Holston Methodism. Pages 206-209 of the book talk about the Vances and page 209 addresses Leah and Sandy Erwin. The second document in this collection is the Cohabitation Records of Leah and…

Information about enslaved people who lived at the Vance Birthplace. Census records are often of little help when researching enslaved people. The earliest records only count the number of slaves, with no regard to age or gender. Although the details…

This collection includes newspaper clippings, an obituary, and a DVD presentation concerning Inez Daugherty. The DVD is entitled "Growing up Black in Black Mountain: An Evening with Inez Daugherty."

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.

Transcription of oral history interview of Katherine Debrow from 2002.

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.
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