Interview with Katherine Summerous

Interview with Katherine Summerous

African American families

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Summerous, Katherine, 1912-1998 -- Childhood and youth

Summerous, Katherine, 1912-1998 -- Interviews

Katherine Summerous is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 12, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1912, Summerous describes growing up on the farm in Tate, Georgia. Her father was a farmer and foreman of a marble quarry, and her mother was a cook. Summerous recalls her father trading corn for wheat during the Great Depression. When she married, her and her husband moved to Calhoun, Georgia and picked cotton. Then, they moved to Murphy, North Carolina. Summerous discusses church customs, Christmas, and occupations of her family members.

Summerous, Katherine, 1912-

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;

1986-08-12

Crittenden, Lorraine

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

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Oral Histories of Western North Carolina