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…
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.
History of African-American schools in Black Mountain and Swannanoa Valley. Flat Creek Road School, Black Mountain Colored School, Old Rock School, and Carver Elementary School. African-American women provided health care to both blacks and whites…
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…