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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

Southern Highlands Research Center Oral History Collection

Contains oral histories collected in and around Asheville and Western North Carolina during the fifteen years from 1977 to 1992, primarily by Dr. Louis D. Silveri and Dr. Bruce Greenawalt. Dr. Silveri collected over 180 hours of audio from…

Tags: Asheville, Civil Rights, education, family, human relations, school, segregation, teaching

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

Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection

Often excluded and invisible from the histories of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, those of African-American descent contributed much to the physical and cultural environment of these highlands. Those who were credited as being responsible for…

Tags: Asheville, business, church, civic organizations, culture, education, employment, highlands, hospitals, people, portraits, school, slavery, sports, students, work

AB-Education-History-42.12

Newspaper clipping concerning local African Americans. The clipping concerning black women is entitled "First Negro School Started Year After Citizen."

Tags: education, school

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

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