Interview with Herman Edward Gibbs

Interview with Herman Edward Gibbs

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Gibbs, Herman Edward, 1910-1990

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

Herman Edward Gibbs is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1910, Gibbs talks about losing his mother and then his father, and being raised by his extended family. He talks about sewing, dry cleaning, dying and altering for a living. He talks about Martin Luther King and voting. He recalls the flu epidemic and a hospital that African Americans built and operated in Asheville called Blue Ridge. He also names a couple of community leaders and their impact along with the role of the church.

Gibbs, Herman Edward, 1910-1990

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

1986-09-10

Crittenden, Lorraine

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sound recordings

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interviews

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35892

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35892

2018-03-13

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:01:52 (sound recording)(duration)

22 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina