Interview with Pearl Frances Howell

Interview with Pearl Frances Howell

African American families

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

Autobiography

Enslaved persons

Farm life

Floods

Howell, Pearl Frances, 1916-1990

Howell, Pearl Frances, 1916-1990 -- Childhood and youth

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

Segregation

Well-being

Pearl Frances Howell is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 8, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Howell grew up in the Little Savannah community in Webster where her grandparents were farmers. Her grandmother was a slave. She recalls farming, schooling, life before and after the Civil Rights Movement, and more.

Howell, Pearl Frances, 1916-1990

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

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

1986-05-08

Crittenden, Lorraine

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sound recordings

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interviews

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Sound

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36128

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2019-08-29

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Webster (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

28:21 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina