Interview with Thomas Bryant

Interview with Thomas Bryant

African American families

African American schools

African American veterans

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Bryant, Thomas, 1940-

Champion Paper and Fibre Company -- Employees

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

Race discrimination

Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Segregation

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Veterans

Thomas Bryant is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bryant talks about the challenges he faced growing up in Waynesville as an African American. He shares his experience volunteering for the military from 1966 to 1969 including his time in Vietnam. He also talks about working for Champion Paper Mill and shares his thoughts on religion.

Bryant, Thomas, 1940-

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 2010s;

2017-05-04

Collins, Chloe

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

transcripts

eng

Sound

Text

35880

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35880

2018-02-23

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Haywood County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

01:06:26 (sound recording)(duration)

12 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina