Interview with Carrie Howell Scruggs and Betty Howell

Interview with Carrie Howell Scruggs and Betty Howell

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Howell, Betty, 1930-

Scruggs, Carrie A. H. (Austin Howell), 1909-2007

Carrie Howell Scruggs and her daughter Betty Howell are interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1909, Scruggs discusses attending Hill Street School in Sylva and Allen Home in Asheville. Scruggs and Howell recall church services, wakes, and celebrating Fourth of July and Christmas. Scruggs also remembers washing and ironing in homes and her husband working in the tannery.

Howell, Betty, 1930-

Scruggs, Carrie A. H. (Austin Howell), 1909-2007

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

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

1986-05-07

Crittenden, Lorraine

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interviews

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2019-01-23

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

00:38:20 (sound recording)(duration)

15 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina