Interview with Evangeline Gibbs

Interview with Evangeline Gibbs

African American families

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Gibbs, Evangeline Thompson

Gibbs, Evangeline Thompson -- Childhood and youth

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

Schools

Segregation

Evangeline Thompson Gibbs is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Gibbs’ parents were the first black people to buy a house on Meadow Street in Waynesville. Her father was also the first and only black barber and her daughter was the first black nurse in Waynesville. Her mother was educated by the Love Stringfield family and Gibbs herself later worked for Dr. Stringfield. Gibbs’ father was a Mason and her mother was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Gibbs recounts her schooling, growing up in a white neighborhood, playing music, and more.

Gibbs, Evangeline Thompson

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;

1986-09-10

Crittenden, Lorraine

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2017-11-07

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Haywood County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:37:18 (sound recording)(duration)

31 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina