Browse Items (24 total)
- Tags: segregation
Sort by:
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…
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…
Tags: Asheville, church, college, community, education, family, Goombay, Great Depression, hate crime, housing, human relations, integration, literacy, minorities, NAACP, politics, programs, protest, race riots, racial discrimination, racial disturbances, recreation, redevelopment, religion, school board, schools, segregation, sit-ins, sororities, sports, teaching, urban development, volunteering, YMI, YWCA
Mary Jane Kelly
Mary Jane Kelly is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 5, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1911 or 1912, Kelly details her schooling which includes attending Stephens-Lee during the…
Princeola Goodman
Princeola Goodman is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on September 1, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Goodman moved to Asheville in 1930, one month pregnant and a widow. She grew up in Honea Path,…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
Debrow, Katherine (3/07/2012)
Oral history interview of Katherine and Feldon Debrow about Roseland Gardens completed in 2012 by Stacy Edmond. This oral history was part of the African American Heritage: Roseland Gardens Project at Warren Wilson College.