This collection includes newspaper clippings concerning slavery in Buncombe County. Notable African American women in this collection include Shayda Vance, Sarah Gudger, and Fannie Moore, among others.
The first document in this collection is a book entitled Holston Methodism. Pages 206-209 of the book talk about the Vances and page 209 addresses Leah and Sandy Erwin. The second document in this collection is the Cohabitation Records of Leah and…
This collection includes general information about the Daugherty family. In terms of African American women, the collection includes the obituary of Dorothy H. Daugherty and the family tree of the Daugherty family.
" Susie Bryson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 28, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bryson talks about schools before they were integrated, the black church being where Robinson Hall is…