Interview with Magnolia Thomas

Interview with Magnolia Thomas

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

Autobiography

Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

North Carolina, Western -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

School integration

Thomas, Magnolia -- Interviews

Magnolia Thomas relates her experiences living with her grandparents while her mother went to New York to find work, being arrested for participating in civil rights marches while attending Elizabeth City State University, moving to Haywood County to stay with her husband’s family while he served in Vietnam, and being unable to find a teaching job there despite having a college degree, and finally finding a job at a private school for Black girls in Buncombe County. Thomas also talks about relations between black and white communities in Western North Carolina, school integration and desegregation, and her other teaching jobs including working for 12 years with a County school in the Erwin district where she was the first Black teacher and working as an assistant principal in a Buncombe County High School.

Thomas, Magnolia

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1950s; 1960s; 1970s;

2014-10-20

West, Ashley

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35623

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35623

2015-03-02

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

Pasquotank County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:47:50 (sound recording)(duration)

19 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina