Interview with Vallie Mae Bowman and daughter Louise Johnson

Interview with Vallie Mae Bowman and daughter Louise Johnson

African American families

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Bowman, Vallie Mae, 1908-1989

Enslaved persons

Johnson, Louise

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

Segregation

Vallie Mae Bowman is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bowman discusses her and siblings education levels, her parents during the depression, how they celebrated holidays, communities of Notlea and Texana, church background and conversion, dating/courting, black leaders not only for the Civil Rights Movement but also locally, "colored" hospitals, and more.

Bowman, Vallie Mae, 1908-1989

Johnson, Louise

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-08-11

Crittenden, Lorraine

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sound recordings

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interviews

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Sound

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35832

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2017-11-07

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:00:50 (sound recording)(duration)

18 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina