Dublin Core
Title
Interview with Magnolia Thomas
Subject
Magnolia Thomas
Description
Magnolia Thomas relates her experiences living with her grandparents while her mother went to New York to find work, being arrested for participating in civil rights marches while attending Elizabeth City State University, moving to Haywood County to stay with her husband’s family while he served in Vietnam, and being unable to find a teaching job there despite having a college degree, and finally finding a job at a private school for black girls in Buncombe County. Thomas also talks about relations between black and white communities in Western North Carolina, school integration, and her other teaching jobs including working for 12 years with a County school in the Erwin district where she was the first black teacher and working as an assistant principal in a Buncombe County High School.
Source
HL_HIST474_West_Thomas_2014_10_20
Date
October 20, 2014
Type
Oral Histories