Interview with Mary Choice

Interview with Mary Choice

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

Autobiography

Choice, Mary, 1898-1991

Community organization

Community organizations

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

Mary Choice (formerly Sullivan) is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 21, 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1898, Choice discusses moving to Asheville with her family in 1927 from South Carolina after their farm failed. She recalls working her first job at Scott’s Boarding House and her husband, Prince Choice working at a construction company and Oteen. She remembers attending dances at clubs, tithing in church, and caring for people in the community through the Maids and Matrons Club. She compares past and present marriage and parenting practices. She describes cooking, Christmas, and a big flood that occurred during her childhood. Choice also discusses improvements in race relations since integration.

Choice, Mary, 1898-1991

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1970s; 1980s;

1987-03-21

Smith, Edward Clark

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2019-01-25

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:50:18 (sound recording)(duration)

19 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina