Interview with Ann Woodford

Interview with Ann Woodford

African American families

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African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

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One Dozen Who Care (Andrews, N.C.)

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

Woodford, Ann Miller -- Interviews

Ann Woodford 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 1947 in Cherokee County, Woodford attended a one room school house for African Americans until the 8th grade after which her only option was a boarding school in Asheville, Allen High School. She discusses her many accomplishments, including starting a business creating African American greeting cards, being the first black person to work in an office in Cherokee County, establishing One Dozen Who Care, and her book When All God’s Children Get Together.

Woodford, Ann Miller

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

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

1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-05-30

Miller, Holly

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2019-08-15

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

01:03:54 (sound recording)(duration)

17 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina