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Black History Academic Papers

This collection includes various academic documents about African Americans in the Swannanoa Valley, many of which concern African American women. The collection has a lot of information about the history of the black community in terms of schools…

Tags: activism, community, employment, preaching, protests, recreation, school, slavery, teaching, war

Black History General Information

This collection has general information on African Americans in the Swannanoa Valley. It includes a list of names of both men and women who have played an important role in the area. These names include Melody Gardner, Lynn Gardner, Sharon Harper,…

Tags: college, education, employment, religion, slavery

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

Cissy Dendy Family Collection (1)

Cissy Dendy came to the North Asheville Scan Day and brought a bag of family photographs. NC Room workers scanned as many photographs as they were able to that day, and recorded Cissy as she was telling them about the photographs. Cissy brought the…

Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war

Cissy Dendy Family Collection (2)

Cissy talked about her family and life to NC Room staffer Zoe Rhine and volunteer Louise Maret

Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war

Cissy Dendy Family Collection (3)

Cissy Dendy loaned the NC Room a CD of recordings her mother Margorie McClain Dendy talking about her mother's family back to the slavery era in Buncombe County.

Tags: African American, Asheville, childhood, education, employment, family, houses, neighborhoods, photographs, politics, religion, school, slavery, war

Daugherty, Annie

This collection includes newspaper clippings and a certificate of death of Annie Daugherty, one of the main midwives for the town of Black Mountain in the early 1900s.

Tags: Allen School, Black Mountain, church, hospitals, Jim Crow, midwivery, school, slavery, YWCA

David Vance Jr. Estate Sale

This collection includes the "David Vance Estate Sale Announcement" and "Scan of Estate Sale Document Listing Enslaved Persons." The latter document lists the sale of Venice, Leah and her children, and Ann to M. M. Vance for a total of $1327.00.

Tags: estate sale, slavery, Vance

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

Della Jackson

Della Jackson is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1905, Jackson talks about growing up in Mill Spring where she worked hard on the farm, but didn’t realize…

Tags: African American Families, African American Schools, African American Teachers, Community Centers, Farm Life, Religious Life, slavery

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