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Interview with Annie May Miller Bolden

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,…

Tags: Asheville, church, civic organizations, clubs, community, employment, entertainment, family, school, segregation, slavery

Interview with Nola Elizabeth Knuckles

Nola Elizabeth Knuckles is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in August 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born on November 25, 1910, Knuckles talks about being raised by her aunt and uncle after losing her…

Tags: Asheville, church, civic organizations, community, employment, family, Ku Klux Klan, Model Cities Program, race relations, school, segregation, YWCA

Interview with Mary Choice

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…

Tags: Asheville, childhood, church, clubs, community, employment, entertainment, family, integration, Jim Crow, race relations, school

Interview with Ann Woodford

Ann Woodford discusses race relations in Western North Carolina under Jim Crow. Woodford explains and explores the importance of African American communities and institutions, especially under racial oppression such as churches and schools.

Tags: Allen School, Asheville, church, Civil Rights, community, Jim Crow, oppression, protests, race relations, racism, school

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…

The South Asheville Colored Cemetery, 1840-1943

Interviews with African American residents of Asheville, NC with knowledge of persons buried in the South Asheville Colored Cemetery. The interviews cover names of people buried in the cemetery, the history of the cemetery, and burial customs.…

Tags: cemetery, community, customs, family, South Asheville Colored Cemetery

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

The Karen Vaneman Oral History Collection of Asheville Urban Renewal

The collection comprises ten oral histories, and a further two for which only text outlines exist, collected by social activist Karen Vaneman. These focus on African-Americans living in Asheville during the time of the Asheville Urban Renewal…

Tags: ACLU, Asheville, community, oral history, social activism, urban renewal

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

Asheville Living Treasures Oral History Collection

This collection comprised oral histories collected by Asheville Living Treasures, an all volunteer organization dedicated to honoring elders in the Asheville and Buncombe County area who have shaped the community and helped make it a better place to…

Tags: community, oral history

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