Interview with Emma Mosley

Interview with Emma Mosley

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

Autobiography

Mosley, Emma, 1910-2008

Mosley, Emma, 1910-2008 -- Childhood and youth

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

World War, 1939-1945

Medicine

Emma Mosley is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 23, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1910, Mosley discusses working on the family farm and cutting wood during her childhood. She recalls her father’s woodyard business in Swain County and several extended family members. Mosley describes playing as a child with white children and a huge snowfall during World War I. She also remembers working in the Fryemont Inn, her son Jimmy serving in World War II, and church customs.

Mosley, Emma, 1910-2008

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;

1986-04-23

Crittenden, Lorraine

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interviews

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2019-01-23

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Swain County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:34:01 (sound recording)(duration)

16 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina