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,…
Lavonne Casey discusses her experiences growing up in Haywood County, Western North Carolina, in the '60s and '70s during the Civil Rights Movement, the strange dichotomy of living in a mixed-race community where everyone was neighborly and children…
Mary Sue Casey is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. She talks about the long integration and desegregation process of the local schools and her…
Gerald Chambers attended Western Carolina University during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He discusses his time as a student and his role as a dorm counselor in the Men’s Housing Government. He shares his experience as student editor of the Western…
Gurney Chambers, a student of Josephina Niggli’s in the late 1950s at Western Carolina University and who later joined the faculty at Western in the 1960s, discusses his memories of her as a teacher and as a colleague.
Billie Caldwell Chandler discusses her ancestors, who were among the first settlers in Cataloochee Valley, and their experience of being displaced in the 1930s when the area became part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She recalls stories…
Mary Choice (formerly Sullivan) is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 21, 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1898, Choice discusses moving to Asheville with her family in 1927 from South…
Doris Couch Clayton talks about living in Tent City which was created to temporarily house the families of Tennessee Valley Authority workers involved in the Fontana Dam project until Fontana Village could be built, Dam Kids reunions, and the…
Leona Clinton is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 27, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Clinton discusses her mother, getting married at 13 years old, moving from Tennessee, never liking…
Mary Jo Cobb is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Cobb talks about growing up in Jackson County on a farm during the Depression and shares the history…