Interview with Essie Casey

Interview with Essie Casey

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

Autobiography

Casey, Essie Marie, 1893-1988

Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Enslaved persons

Floods

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

Essie Casey is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 16, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. At the time of the interview, Casey is 93 years old and the oldest black citizen in Jackson County. She discusses growing up in Yancey County on a farm where they had plenty to eat, even during the Depression. Casey talks about moving to Cullowhee where they had to take a boat to get across the river to their home. She talks a bit about both World Wars and the Civil Rights Movement.

Casey, Essie Marie, 1893-1988

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1890s; 1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-05-16

Crittenden, Lorraine

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35898

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35898

2018-03-13

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Cullowhee (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

Yancey County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:47:16 (sound recordings)(duration)

25 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina