Interview with Zenophon Cook

Interview with Zenophon Cook

African American families

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Chauffeurs

Cook, Zenophon, 1900-

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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

Political activists

Race discrimination

School integration

Segregation

Slavery

Zenophon B. Cook is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith June 28, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1900, Cook moved to Asheville in his teens to work at the Battery Park Hotel, then went to automotive school in Cincinnati, Ohio and became a chauffeur. He settled in Asheville in the mid-30s and got involved with the local NAACP. One of the first major goals they accomplished was getting a Black police officer hired on to the police force. Cook talks about picketing for equal employment, his feelings on segregation and desegregation, racial inequities, and the church.

Cook, Zenophon, 1900-

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;

1987-06-28

Smith, Edward Clark

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

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Oral Histories of Western North Carolina