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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…

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

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

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

Asheville Citizen Times

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…

Tags: African American, Black Mountain, health care, midwife, schools, segregation, Swannanoa Valley

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

Black History Newspaper Articles

This collection includes various newspaper articles on African Americans from the Swannanoa Valley. Many of these articles concern African American women, including Inez Daugherty, Lib Harper, Lizzie Littlefield Wells, Addie Burgin, Jessie Lytle,…

Tags: awards, Black History Month, Black Mountain Woman's Club, childhood, church, clubs, college, community, diversity, education, employment, entertainment, family, integration, midwives, protests, segregation, slavery, teaching

Debrow, Katherine (12/01/2002)

Transcription of oral history interview of Katherine Debrow from 2002.

Tags: ancestry, Black Mountain, church, clubs, college, community, entertainment, family, integration, music, Roseland Gardens, school, segregation, slavery

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.

Tags: Black Mountain, community, entertainment, integration, recreation, Roseland Gardens, segregation

Interview with Alverta Lowman

Alverta Lowman is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 24, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Lowman describes cleaning houses for different families in Asheville and Cullowhee. She recalls church…

Tags: Asheville, church, emplyment, race relations, segregation

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