Delsie Pettit Love is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Love was born in 1893 in Andrews. She recalls her mother’s funeral when she was four years…
Arizona Mitchell is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on July 16, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1901, Mitchell moved from Knoxville to Asheville in 1910 after her mom died. She talks about…
Mae Powell is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 12, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1909, Powell grew up in Swain County in Birdtown until the Cherokee took her family’s land away.…
Henry Robinson is interviewed by Gwendolyn Sheppard on August 29, 1989 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Reporting for the Asheville Citizen Times newspaper at the time of the interview, Robinson’s interview…
Rosa Lee Shepard Gibson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 6, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1908, Gibson recalls her mother’s family, who were enslaved, and her own childhood…
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 enslaved. She recalls growing up without clothes to go to…
Mildred Proctor is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on April 2, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1928, Proctor grew up in Whitmire, South Carolina. Her father died young and so she quit school…
Ola Mapp, (born St. Ola DeShields, 1915-2009), is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on October 2, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1916, Mapp moved to Asheville in 1921. She talks about her…
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…
Willie Proctor is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on April 2, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. He was born in Rutherford County in 1904 and moved to Polk county when he was still young. He recalls…