Ann Woodford discusses race relations in Western North Carolina under Jim Crow. Woodford explains and explores the importance of African American communities and institutions such as churches and schools especially under racial oppression.
Walter Ziffer is interviewed by Alex Macaulay, Associate Professor of History at WCU. Ziffer talks about growing up in Czechoslovakia, his experiences with the Holocaust, and coming to America in 1947. He talks about his memoir, Confronting the…
Thomas Bryant is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bryant talks about the challenges he faced growing up in Waynesville as an African American. He…
Louise Gaston Colbert is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1912, Colbert talks about attending school in Murphy through 8th grade, marrying early…
Roosevelt Jeter is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1904, Jeter moved to Asheville in 1934 from Union, South Carolina, Jeter talks about the…
Frederick Miller is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on August 27, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1917, Miller lost his parents at an early age and was raised by his aunt and uncle. Miller…
Herman Edward Gibbs is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1910, Gibbs talks about losing his mother and then his father, and being raised by…
Elizabeth Mary Hyatt Gibson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 29, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1906, Gibson grew up in the Webster / Little Savannah area of Jackson County. She…
Essie Casey is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 16, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. At the time of the interview, Casey is 93 years old and the oldest black citizen in Jackson County. She…
Jessie Mae Casey is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Casey recounts stories from her grandmother from when she was enslaved in the Savannah area,…