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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 Annie May Miller Bolden

Annie May (Mae) Bolden is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bolden talks right away about her grandmothers, then proceeds to moving from South Carolina, her father,…

Tags: Asheville, church, civic organizations, clubs, community, employment, entertainment, family, school, segregation, slavery

Interview with Susie Bryson

" 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…

Tags: Asheville, church, employment, family, geneaology, integration, school, segregation, slavery

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

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…

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

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

Ramsey Library Special Collections Oral Histories

A collection of oral histories generally gathered by the staff of, and those affiliated with, Ramsey Library Special Collections. There is a general focus on Asheville and its history, but specific topics include, medicine, politics, arts and crafts,…

Tags: Asheville City Council, Buncombe County, desegregation, libraries, segregation

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

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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