Interview with Jessie Mae Casey

Interview with Jessie Mae Casey

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Casey, Jessie Mae, 1910-1988

Enslaved persons

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

Segregation

Slavery -- North Carolina, Western

Jessie Mae Casey is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on September 10, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Casey recounts stories from her grandmother from when she was enslaved in the Savannah area, including how she learned that she was free. Casey touches on many topics including education, playing with white children, church, community, the Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement. Her sister joined the Women’s Army Corps (WAC).

Casey, Jessie Mae, 1910-1988

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1860s; 1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-09-10

Crittenden, Lorraine

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35901

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35901

2018-03-13

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Webster (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:39:02 (sound recordings)(duration)

43 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina