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…
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,…
Annie May (Mae) Bolden is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bolden talks right away about her grandmothers, then proceeds to moving from South Carolina, her father,…
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…
Various newspaper clippings concerning local African Americans. Those clippings concerning black women are entitled "Colored YWCA Secures Building," "$10,000 Negro YWCA Will Be Erected Here," "Dedication of New Negro YWCA To Take Place Today," "600…
Various newspaper clippings concerning local African Americans. Those clippings concerning black women are entitled "Grand Opera House," "Asheville Woman Bought Husband, Then Sold Him," "Negro Groups View Civic Problems," "Mars Hill Will Admit First…