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Documents About Young Leah

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…

Tags: church, geneaology, religion, slavery, Vance

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

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…

Angels Unaware: Asheville Women of Color

Limited oral history paying tribute to women of color in the Asheville area. These women's lives have been molded by the circumstances of the times in which they live(d), a time when history left out the lives of black women and did not realize their…

Tags: African American, children, church, community/civic organizations, education, employment, family, race relations, religion, schools, segregation, teaching, urban renewal, YWCA

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…

Cissy Dendy Family Collection (3)

Cissy Dendy loaned the NC Room a CD of recordings her mother Margorie McClain Dendy talking about her mother's family back to the slavery era in Buncombe County.

Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war

Cissy Dendy Family Collection (2)

Cissy talked about her family and life to NC Room staffer Zoe Rhine and volunteer Louise Maret

Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war

Cissy Dendy Family Collection (1)

Cissy Dendy came to the North Asheville Scan Day and brought a bag of family photographs. NC Room workers scanned as many photographs as they were able to that day, and recorded Cissy as she was telling them about the photographs. Cissy brought the…

Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war

Bosman Photograph Album-- 8-10/1992

This scrapbook contains news concerning the Asheville Black community from August to October 1992. It consists of 105 pages.

Procession of Five Black Women to a Baptism

A procession of five black women to a baptism. They're wearing long robes with their coats over them. In the background are trees, a fence and a wagon.

Tags: African American, baptism, Black Mountain, ceremony, portraits, religion, wagon

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