Photo of a small cabin in an open field with three African American women and three children standing or sitting in the dirt yard outside the cabin door. Seems to date back to the 1880s.
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…
Various newspaper clippings concerning local African Americans. Those clippings concerning black women are entitled "Grand Opera House," "Asheville Woman Bought Husband, Then Sold Him," "Negro Groups View Civic Problems," "Mars Hill Will Admit First…