Interview with Howard K. Harrison

Interview with Howard K. Harrison

African American barbers

African American families

African American physicians

African American schools

African American veterans

African Americans

African Americans -- Education

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Enslaved persons

Harrison, Howard K. (Howard Kenneth), 1903-1992

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

Pullman porters

Segregation

United States. Army -- Military life

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives

Barbers

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans

Howard Harrison is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 11, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Harrison was born in 1903 on Hill Street in Asheville. His father operated the first Black barbershop in the area and Harrison began working there at the age of 12. He attended high school at Livingstone College, college at Fisk University, and medical school at Meharry Medical College, where he graduated in 1929. He made his way through college as a barber and a Pullman porter on the railroad. About 1931 he started a medical practice in Bristol, Tennessee and in 1941 started a practice in Asheville. He was drafted in 1942, and returned to a very segregated Asheville in 1946 where he continued practicing medicine.

Harrison, Howard K. (Howard Kenneth), 1903-1992

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;

1987-06-11

Smith, Edward Clark

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Asheville (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Tennessee, East

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36 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina