Interview with Juanita Jones

Interview with Juanita Jones

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Jones, Juanita, 1914-2010

Jones, Juanita, 1914-2010 -- Childhood and youth

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

Segregation

Juanita Gudger Jones (1914-2010) is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on February 23, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Jones was born in Asheville where she grew up during the Great Depression. She talks about what it means to be a Christian and how that has changed. Jones talks about racial inequalities, funerals, black businesses in Asheville, and working for the WPA.

Jones, Juanita, 1914-2010

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;

1986-02-23

Smith, Edward Clark

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interviews

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2019-08-29

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

11 pages (transcript)(duration)

38:38 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina