Interview with Mary Jane Kelly

Interview with Mary Jane Kelly

African American families

African American schools

African American teachers

African Americans

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Educators

Juneteenth

Kelly, Mary Jane

Music

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

Race discrimination

School integration

Segregation

Slavery

Mary Jane Kelly is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 5, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1911 or 1912, Kelly details her schooling which includes attending Stephens-Lee during the depression, A & T College, and earning a master’s degree from Howard University in Washington D. C. She taught high school in Pitt County, North Carolina for eighteen years, in Statesville for four, and then in Buncombe County she taught at Allen Home and Reynolds High School. Kelly discusses church in Asheville, segregation, integration and desegregation, and three criminal cases against Black men in 1925.

Kelly, Mary Jane

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;

1987-06-05

Smith, Edward Clark

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Iredell County (N.C.)

Pitt County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

54:45 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina