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LHF - African American Awards Banquet

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…

Tags: awards, banquet, business, church, civic organizations, clubs, college, community, education, entertainment, NAACP, recreation, school, sports, youth

Debrow, Katherine (12/01/2002)

Transcription of oral history interview of Katherine Debrow from 2002.

Tags: ancestry, Black Mountain, church, clubs, college, community, entertainment, family, integration, music, Roseland Gardens, school, segregation, slavery

Black History General Information

This collection has general information on African Americans in the Swannanoa Valley. It includes a list of names of both men and women who have played an important role in the area. These names include Melody Gardner, Lynn Gardner, Sharon Harper,…

Tags: college, education, employment, religion, slavery

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,…

Tags: awards, Black History Month, Black Mountain Woman's Club, childhood, church, clubs, college, community, diversity, education, employment, entertainment, family, integration, midwives, protests, segregation, slavery, teaching

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…

Center for Diversity Education - Oral Histories Collected for With All Deliberate Speed

Contains records of interviews conducted, in 2005, by the Center for Diversity Education about the desegregation in the Asheville area. Some interviews only contain transcripts, or summaries, and no audio is available. The interviews formed the basis…

Tags: ASCORE, boycotts, businesses, Center for Diversity Education, college, community, desegregation, employment, integration, Jim Crow, oral history, racial equality, racial inequalities, schools, sit-ins, teachers, violence

AB-Afro-American/ Community/History-2

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…

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