Ben Harold Bryson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 7, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bryson discusses hauling laundry in a little wagon, having a blind father, only making three dollars a…
Calvin Carter is interviewed by Gwendolyn Sheppard on February 16 and March 10, 1989 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Carter discussed having Indian in his bloodline, how his parents met at the railroads,…
Hilda Inabinett is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 23, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Inabinett discusses his first jobs, being married over 50 years so far, wanting to serve in WWI,…
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,…
Vallie Mae Bowman is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bowman discusses her and siblings education levels, her parents during the depression, how they…
Evangeline Thompson Gibbs is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Gibbs’ parents were the first black people to buy a house on Meadow Street in…
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…
Rufus Scott Adell is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on July 22, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Adell talks about his grandaddy, his first job in 1926, coming to Asheville by himself, his siblings,…