Interview with Elizabeth Mary Hyatt Gibson

Interview with Elizabeth Mary Hyatt Gibson

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Floods

Gibson, Elizabeth Mary Hyatt, 1906-

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

Elizabeth Mary Hyatt Gibson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 29, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1906, Gibson grew up in the Webster / Little Savannah area of Jackson County. She talks about being able to walk the seven miles to school only if she was caught up on her chores. She describes her mother’s in-home laundry business. Gibson married at the age of thirteen in order to get away from home. She also recalls two or three major floods, church, and interactions with her white neighbors and her life duing the time of desegregation.

Gibson, Elizabeth Mary Hyatt, 1906-

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;

1986-04-29

Crittenden, Lorraine

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2018-03-13

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:55:33 (sound recordings)(duration)

23 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina