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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…

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…

Tags: African American, children, church, community/civic organizations, education, employment, family, race relations, religion, schools, segregation, teaching, urban renewal, 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…

Tags: African American, children, church, community/civic organizations, education, employment, family, race relations, religion, schools, segregation, teaching, urban renewal, YWCA

Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection

Often excluded and invisible from the histories of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, those of African-American descent contributed much to the physical and cultural environment of these highlands. Those who were credited as being responsible for…

Tags: Asheville, business, church, civic organizations, culture, education, employment, highlands, hospitals, people, portraits, school, slavery, sports, students, work

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.

Tags: African American, Asheville, Asheville Housing Authority, black, businesses, childhood, children, church, houses, integration, neighborhood, school, segregation, urban renewal, YWCA

Enslaved People of the Vance Birthplace

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…

Tags: Asheville, church, family, slavery, Vance

Bosman Photograph Album-- 8-10/1992

This scrapbook contains news concerning the Asheville Black community from August to October 1992. It consists of 105 pages.

AB-Government/Politics- Administration/Asheville City Council-60.1

Various newspaper clippings concerning local African Americans. Those clippings concerning black women are entitled "GOP Fields 7-Woman Council Slate," "City Council Results (11-6-1985)," "Alliance Urges Bratton Choice," "Bratton Blames Flawed Law…

Tags: Asheville City Council, church, civil service law, Democratic Party, elections, GOP, police, Republican Party

Isaiah Rice Photograph Collection

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…

Tags: African American, Asheville, children, church, community, family, portrait, school, social gathering

Allen High School Records

The Allen High School, originally named the Allen Industrial Training School, was a girls' private boarding school located in Asheville, North Carolina, which served the African-American population from 1887 to 1974. The collection includes…

Tags: Allen School, church, education, teachers

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