Interview with Della Jackson

Interview with Della Jackson

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Jackson, Della Hayden Davenport, 1905-1993

Jackson, Della Hayden Davenport, 1905-1993 -- Childhood and youth

Della Jackson is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1905, Jackson talks about growing up in Mill Spring where she worked hard on the farm, but didn’t realize it was work until she was older. She attended Stony Knoll School repeating the seventh grade until a teacher encouraged her to go to Allen Home High School. She eventually went to college and earned her Master’s degree. She was a teacher at Stony Knoll where at one point she had 68 children in 7 different grades at once. Jackson was very involved in her community and founded the Stony Knoll Community Library in 1937.

Jackson, Della Hayden Davenport, 1905-1993

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

Smith, Edward Clark

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2019-11-25

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Oral Histories of Western North Carolina