Interview with Manuel Briscoe

Interview with Manuel Briscoe

African American families

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Agriculture

Autobiography

Briscoe, Manuel, 1919-

Enslaved persons

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

Sharecroppers -- North Carolina, Western

Slavery -- North Carolina, Western

Manuel Briscoe is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Briscoe talks about sharecropping quite a bit in the beginning, church customs changing, excitement for Christmas as a child, black leadership, his elementary school being named after a slave, respecting everyone, local legislation, and more.

Briscoe, Manuel, 1919-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1987-03-25

Smith, Edward Clark

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35844

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2017-11-07

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Madison County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:41:48 (sound recording)(duration)

8 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina