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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
Asheville Living Treasures Oral History Collection
This collection comprised oral histories collected by Asheville Living Treasures, an all volunteer organization dedicated to honoring elders in the Asheville and Buncombe County area who have shaped the community and helped make it a better place to…
Tags: community, oral history
Buncombe County Slave Deeds
Records of the sales of enslaved people in Buncombe County from 1776-1865. Included are the names of the enslaved, the grantor, and grantee, as well as a typed transcript of the court record. This record sometimes includes personal information about…
Tags: slave deeds
"Westall Family Collection"
Folder contains information on the Westall Home Place and other Westall houses built nearby. Manuscript "RE: "The Help" at 44 Westall Avenue, Asheville, in the 20th century" by Catherine Large Wetstein in 2015 describes the African American women who…
Tags: African American, hired help, portrait, servants, Westall
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…
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…
Tags: Asheville, church, college, community, education, family, Goombay, Great Depression, hate crime, housing, human relations, integration, literacy, minorities, NAACP, politics, programs, protest, race riots, racial discrimination, racial disturbances, recreation, redevelopment, religion, school board, schools, segregation, sit-ins, sororities, sports, teaching, urban development, volunteering, YMI, YWCA
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…
Juanita Jones
Juanita Gudger Jones (1914-2010) is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on February 23, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Jones was born in Asheville where she grew up during the Great Depression. She…
Lottie Young
Lottie Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 4, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Young was born in 1886 and her father had been a slave. She recalls growing up without clothes to go to…
Mary Jane Kelly
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…