Interview with Willie Proctor

Interview with Willie Proctor

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

Autobiography

Construction workers

Enslaved persons

Floods

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

Proctor, Willie, 1904-

Proctor, Willie, 1904- -- Childhood and youth

Segregation

Slavery -- North Carolina, Western

Willie Proctor is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on April 2, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. He was born in Rutherford County in 1904 and moved to Polk county when he was still young. He recalls his grandmother’s stories about being sold into slavery and details the time she was freed. He raised a large family and talks about working, how he got into the building business, getting by on very little, and church. He recalls the 1916 flood. Proctor shares his experiences before and after the civil rights movement.

Proctor, Willie, 1904-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

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

1986-04-02

Smith, Edward Clark

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

audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

36140

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36140

2019-10-09

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Polk County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

16 pages (transcript)(duration)

54:20 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina