Interview with Lottie Young

Interview with Lottie Young

African American families

African American women

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Education

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Agriculture

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

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Young, Lottie Allen, 1886-1991 -- Childhood and youth

Young, Lottie Allen, 1886-1991 -- Interviews

Lottie Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 4, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Young was born in 1886 and her father had been enslaved. She recalls growing up without clothes to go to church and no shoes. She and her siblings were educated through eighth grade and then went to work in the fields. Young describes some of the jobs they had to do such as grubbing and making molasses. Young remembers working for Ness Brothers as a cloth cutter and after her children were out of the home she raised the children of another family.

Young, Lottie Allen, 1886-1991

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1890s; 1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1987-06-04

Smith, Edward Clark

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2019-11-01

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

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Oral Histories of Western North Carolina