Interview with Ola Mapp

Interview with Ola Mapp

African American families

African American farmers

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Community organization

Depressions -- 1929

Enslaved persons

Mapp, Ola, 1915-2009

Mapp, Ola, 1915-2009 -- Childhood and youth

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

Segregation

Slavery

Ola Mapp, (born St. Ola DeShields, 1915-2009), is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on October 2, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1916, Mapp moved to Asheville in 1921. She talks about her parent’s involvement with the New Mount Olive Baptist Church, and attending Hill Street School, Livingston, and Stephens Lee High School. She married just after high school and had eight children, creating a bustling household. Mapp and her husband Walter H. (Howard) Mapp (1909-1993) were both very involved in community organizations such as the PTA (Parent Teacher Association), Boy Scouts, United Way, and 4-H. Mapp shares her thoughts on segregation and integration.

Mapp, Ola, 1915-2009

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

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

1987-10-02

Smith, Edward Clark

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

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North Carolina, Western

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23 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina