Interview with Julia Young

Interview with Julia Young

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

Agriculture

Autobiography

Enslaved persons

Segregation

Slavery -- North Carolina, Western

Young, Julia, 1906-1997 -- Interviews

Alternative medicine

Herbs -- Therapeutic use

Traditional medicine -- North Carolina, Western

Julia Rucker Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in Yancey County in 1906, Young talks about growing up on the farm and attending school and church services. She recalls going blind for three months and how she regained her sight. Young describes how she became a seamstress in Mitchell County, North Carolina for 24 years. She also discusses segregation, voting, and herbal remedies such as boneset.

Young, Julia, 1906-1997

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;

1986-03-25

Smith, Edward Clark

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sound recordings

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interviews

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Sound

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35941

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35941

2019-02-26

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Madison County (N.C.)

Mitchell County (N.C.)

Yancey County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:35:09 (sound recording)(duration)

10 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina