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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

Oral Histories Collection: Viola Jones Spells Interview-- 2011

This folder contains an interview on CD recorded by WCQS Public Radio Station in Asheville of interviewer, David Hurand interviewing Viola Jones Spells on the subject of the 50th Anniversary of Desegregation of Pack Memorial Library. It aired…

Tags: African American, ASCORE, Asheville, desegregation, education, integration, Pack Memorial Library, racial equality, radio, school, segregation

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

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

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

Bosman Scrapbook, Asheville African-Americans-- 2-3/1992

This scrapbook contains news concerning the Asheville Black community from February to March 1992. It consists of 100 pages.

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.

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

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

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…

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