Interview with Janice Inabinett

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Janice Inabinett

Subject

African American families
African American schools
African Americans
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Autobiography
Community organization
Inabinett, Janice, 1941-
One Dozen Who Care (Andrews, N.C.)
Political activists
School integration
Storytellers -- North Carolina, Western

Description

Janice Inabinett is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1941 in Bryson City, Inabinett grew up in a tight-knit African American community and attended her elementary school years in a one room Rosenwald school. She discusses how her high school years were affected by Brown vs. Board of Education and desegregation. Inabinett talks about her time living in New York City, attending Woodstock, and her life as a storyteller.

Creator

Inabinett, Janice, 1941-

Source

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Publisher

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

Date

1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;
2018-07-14

Contributor

McRae, Lucy

Rights

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

Format

application/pdf; audio/mp3;
sound recordings
transcripts
interviews

Language

eng

Type

Sound
Text

Identifier

36098
https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36098

Date Created

2019-08-15

Rights Holder

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

Spatial Coverage

Swain County (N.C.)
North Carolina, Western

Extent

1:19:22 (sound recording)(duration)
16 pages (transcript)(duration)

Is Part Of

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina

Citation

Inabinett, Janice, 1941-, “Interview with Janice Inabinett,” OAI, accessed May 3, 2025, https://sadc.qi-cms.com/omeka/items/show/36098.