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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

Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection

Often excluded and invisible from the histories of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, those of African-American descent contributed much to the physical and cultural environment of these highlands. Those who were credited as being responsible for…

Tags: Asheville, business, church, civic organizations, culture, education, employment, highlands, hospitals, people, portraits, school, slavery, sports, students, work

Interview with Susie Bryson

" Susie Bryson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 28, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bryson talks about schools before they were integrated, the black church being where Robinson Hall is…

Tags: Asheville, church, employment, family, geneaology, integration, school, segregation, slavery

Interview with Annie May Miller Bolden

Annie May (Mae) Bolden is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bolden talks right away about her grandmothers, then proceeds to moving from South Carolina, her father,…

Tags: Asheville, church, civic organizations, clubs, community, employment, entertainment, family, school, segregation, 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

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

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

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