Interview with Mary Sue Casey

Interview with Mary Sue Casey

African American Baptists

African American teachers

African Americans

African Americans -- Education

Autobiography

Casey, Mary Sue, 1952-

Community organizations

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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

School integration

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 experience as an African American. She recalls her career as a math teacher in Monroe, North Carolina as well as locally in Jackson County and Cherokee. She speaks about the Jackson County NAACP and her role as secretary as well as the importance of the Liberty Baptist Church to her life.

Casey, Mary Sue, 1952-

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2015-06-04;

Miller, Emma

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35673

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35673

2016-07-12

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Monroe (N.C.)

0:41:51 (sound recording)(duration)

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina