Interview with Lee Knight

Interview with Lee Knight

Autobiography

Folk singers

Knight, Lee

Music

Political activists

Rafting (Sports)

School integration

Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Teachers -- Southern States

Folk music

Lee Knight is interviewed by Smoky Mountain High School students as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in 1945 in upstate New York, Knight is influenced by both the Adirondacks and Southern Appalachian Mountains. He talks about teaching in all Black schools, and newly desegregated schools in Sumter, South Carolina. Knight’s life is largely shaped by folk music and he shares stories of his travels and experiences playing, researching, recording, and saving traditional music. Knight also talks about his experiences as a raft guide for Nantahala Outdoor Center.

Knight, Lee

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-05-29

Putnam, Kaitlyn

Wallace, Sarah

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

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

36104

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36104

2019-08-15

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Appalachian Region, Southern

Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)

Southern States

16 pages (transcript)(duration)

46:36 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina