Interview with Mary Jones Worley

Interview with Mary Jones Worley

African American families

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Enslaved persons

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

Segregation

Worley, Mary Jones, 1907-1989 -- Childhood and youth

Worley, Mary Jones, 1907-1989 -- Interviews

Mary Jones Worley is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 30, 1984 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Worley traces her family lineage from her great grandparents living in Jackson and Macon County. She describes growing up in Jackson County, playing games, attending school, and helping her mother with laundry at C. J. Harris Hospital. After leaving the ninth grade, Worley did domestic work at Dr. Hooper’s residence, then at Mrs. Dan Allison and Pearl and Harry Buchanan’s homes. She also worked at the hospital in the kitchen carrying trays. Worley remembers food rations during the Great Depression, illness, church services, and a church fire.

Worley, Mary Jones, 1907-1989

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;

1986-04-30

Crittenden, Lorraine

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2019-02-26

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Sylva (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:53:50 (sound recording)(duration)

23 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina