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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…
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.
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
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…
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…
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,…
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.
Tags: African American, church, community, crime, drugs, Goombay '92, hate crime, homeless, housing, magnet schools, Minority Enterprise Development Week, obituaries, outstanding black women, police, racial awareness, religion, school, security concerns, senior citizens, sports, teacher of the year, Woolworth's
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
Daugherty, Inez
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."
Tags: Black Mountain, church, cooking, employment, family, obituary, recipes