Interview with Alverta Lowman

Interview with Alverta Lowman

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

Autobiography

Lowman, Alverta, 1912-

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

Segregation

Alverta Lowman is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 24, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Lowman describes cleaning houses for different families in Asheville. She recalls church services, working at an early age, and the treatment of African Americans. Lowman discusses segregated conditions such as sitting in the back of the bus and eating in the back of a restaurant.

Lowman, Alverta, 1912-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1940s; 1950s; 1960s;

1987-03-24

Smith, Edward Clark

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

35968

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35968

2019-01-22

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Buncombe County (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

00:19:02 (sound recording)(duration)

5 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina