Interview with Frederick Miller

Interview with Frederick Miller

African American families

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Asheville (N.C.) -- Race relations

Autobiography

Choirs (Music)

Depressions -- 1929

Miller, Frederick, 1917-

Segregation

Frederick Miller is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on August 27, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1917, Miller lost his parents at an early age and was raised by his aunt and uncle. Miller moved to Asheville when he was 12 and attended Hill Street School and then Stephens-Lee where he won first prize in a state musical contest for vocals. Smith graduated from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Miller describes the inner politics of the black community that existed as he was growing up and how that has changed.

Miller, Frederick, 1917-

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;

1987-08-27

Smith, Edward Clark

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sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

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Sound

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2018-03-13

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Southern States

0:38:55 (sound recordings)(duration)

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina