Mary Jane Kelly

Mary Jane Kelly

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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 depression, A & T College, and earning a master’s degree from Howard University in Washington D. C. She taught high school in Pitt County, North Carolina for eighteen years, in Statesville for four, and then in Buncombe County she taught at Allen Home and Reynolds High School. Kelly discusses church in Asheville, segregation, integration, and three criminal cases against black men in 1925.

Edward Clark Smith

HL_MSS98-03_Smith_Kelly_1987-06-05

06.05.1987

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Oral History

Buncombe Co., Pitt Co., Iredell Co. 1910s-1980s