Interview with Roosevelt Jeter

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Roosevelt Jeter

Subject

African American families
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Religion
Autobiography
Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Jeter, Roosevelt, 1904-
Segregation
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Description

Roosevelt Jeter is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1904, Jeter moved to Asheville in 1934 from Union, South Carolina, Jeter talks about the changes in race relations that he has seen over the years and between the two places.

Creator

Jeter, Roosevelt, 1904-

Source

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

Publisher

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

Date

1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;
1987-03-25

Contributor

Smith, Edward Clark

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Format

application/pdf; audio/mp3;
sound recordings
transcripts
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound
Text

Identifier

35886
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35886

Date Created

2018-03-13

Rights Holder

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Spatial Coverage

Buncombe County (N.C.)
Union County (S.C.)
North Carolina, Western
Southern States

Extent

0:22:30 (sound recordings)(duration)
11 pages (transcript)(duration)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Jeter, Roosevelt, 1904-, “Interview with Roosevelt Jeter,” OAI, accessed May 1, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/35886.