Interview with Anthony Thomas

Interview with Anthony Thomas

African American veterans

African Americans

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

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

Race discrimination

Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Segregation

Thomas, Anthony A., 1899- -- Interviews

Veterans

World War, 1914-1918 -- African Americans

Anthony Thomas is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 6, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Thomas’ recording starts near the end of the interview, but the introduction tells us that he was 86 years old, worked in a tannery in Andrews, moved to Asheville where he was a supervisor at a foundry, and was in World War I. In his seventies he moved to Sylva where he voted for the first time. Thomas discusses his experience of the period of desegregation.

Thomas, Anthony A., 1899-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-05-06

Crittenden, Lorraine

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

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2019-02-26

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

00:07:30 (sound recording)(duration)

4 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina