Interview with Eugenia Dennis Jarrett

Interview with Eugenia Dennis Jarrett

African American families

African American nurses

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Community organizations

Jarrett, Eugenia Dennis, 1896-

Juneteenth

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Segregation

Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Eugenia Dennis Jarrett is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 3, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1896, Jarrett graduated from Samuel Houston College and was nominated to come from Austin, Texas to work at Nacoochee Institute in Rabun, Georgia, where she stayed for 27 years. She then moved to Asheville and worked as a practical nurse. She has been active in organizations that strive to better the lives of African Americans, and she talks about how relationships between black and white people have changed for the better. She finishes the interview by reciting a few poems she wrote.

Jarrett, Eugenia Dennis, 1896-

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;

1987-03-03

Smith, Edward Clark

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interviews

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2018-03-13

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Rabun County (Ga.)

Travis County (Tex.)

North Carolina, Western

Southern States

0:31:56 (sound recordings)(duration)

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina