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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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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