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…
Jim Johnson shares his experience in Asheville during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1965 he lived in Montford and attended a naturally integrated school, then moved to north Asheville and attended Ira B. Jones, a naturally segregated school. In…
Kirk Johnson examines moving from Augusta, Georgia to Asheville, North Carolina in the late 1960s. He describes his high school experience and explains the impact the Asheville High School Riot of 1969 had on his life. He describes race relations at…
Carroll Jones talks about growing up in Canton while his dad worked at Champion Paper and Fibre Company, and then later his experience with Champion including working in Brazil.
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…
A student in Western Carolina University's (WCU) Theatre Department in the late 1960s and early 1970s studying Technical Theatre, Luther Jones later became an Assistant Professor at WCU's School of Stage and Screen. Josephina Niggli taught in the…
Robert E. Keim talks about playing on the mountains near Fontana Village where he lived for three years during his early teens while his dad worked with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the way the town seemed like a self-contained world that his…
Perry Kelly (Dr. Isaac Perry Kelly, 1925-2018) is interviewed by Kathy Walters on October 19, 2002. Mr. Kelly was born in Orlando, Florida in 1925. He lived there for a while until he moved to Alabama, then Georgia, only to return to back Orlando. He…
Livingston Kelly talks about his love of photography and how he got started in the business. He opened his first photography studio above Hoopers Drug Store on Main Street in Sylva, NC in 1971 and continues to operate Livingston’s Photo, 43 years…
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…