Interview with Birdell Love Smith

Interview with Birdell Love Smith

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Events

Smith, Birdell Love, 1910-1988 -- Interviews

Birdell Love Smith is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on September 16, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Living in Haywood County all her life, Smith talks about her family lineage and attending school and church fundraisers. She discusses activities such as candy pulling, Christmas, Fourth of July, courting, church customs, and funerals. Smith recalls restrictions on goods during the Great Depression and how the civil rights movement improved social and working conditions for African Americans.

Smith, Birdell Love, 1910-1988

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-09-16

Smith, Edward Clark

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interviews

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2019-01-23

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Haywood County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

01:10:58 (sound recording)(duration)

24 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina