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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…

African American Communities Oral History Project: Cynthia Hallum Interview-- June 15, 2017

This is a transcription of an oral history interview taken by Friends of the North Carolina Room volunteer Pat Fitzpatrick, interviewing Asheville native, Cynthia Hallum. The interview took place on June 15, 2017 at Pack Memorial Library.

Tags: African American, Asheville, Asheville Housing Authority, black, businesses, childhood, children, church, houses, integration, neighborhood, school, segregation, urban renewal, YWCA

Asheville YWCA Archive

Primarily comprises administrative papers, board minutes, annual reports, photographic materials, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks from the YWCA in Asheville. The materials document the Central YWCA, the segregated Phyllis Wheatley Branch, and…

Tags: community, integration, programs, racism, segregation, urban renewal, YWCA

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

Business/General-Retail Businesses/Department Stores, Etc. [A to Z]

Newspaper clipping concerning local African Americans. The clipping concerning black women is entitled "Black-Owned Businesses Have Long History Here."

Tags: business, integration, Longmire's

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

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

Debrow, Katherine (3/07/2012)

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.

Tags: Black Mountain, community, entertainment, integration, recreation, Roseland Gardens, segregation

Interview with Magnolia Thomas

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…

Tags: Allen School, childhood, education, employment, integration, race relations, school, segregation, teachers

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

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