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This collection includes newspaper clippings concerning segregation and integration in Buncombe County in 1964. Notable African American women included in this collection include Rosa Davis and Kathy Gibson Cleveland.

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This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning African American history. African American women mentioned in this collection include Sarah Gudger, Kat Debrow, Lucy S. Herring, Inez Daugherty, and Oralene Graves.

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Oral history interview of Katherine and Feldon Debrow about Roseland Gardens completed in 2012 by Stacy Edmond. This oral history was part of the African American Heritage: Roseland Gardens Project at Warren Wilson College.

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Transcription of oral history interview of Katherine Debrow from 2002.

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This collection has general information on Roseland Gardens, a historic juke joint and movie house in Black Mountain that was a major entertainment venue for the African American community. This collection includes several write-ups and news articles…

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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,…

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Magnolia Thomas relates her experiences living with her grandparents while her mother went to New York to find work, being arrested for participating in civil rights marches while attending Elizabeth City State University, moving to Haywood County to…

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" 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…

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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…

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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…

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