Interview with Lucy Ann Siler

Interview with Lucy Ann Siler

African American families

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Genealogy

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Enslaved persons

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

Segregation

Siler, Lucy Ann, 1894-1992 -- Childhood and youth

Siler, Lucy Ann, 1894-1992 -- Interviews

Slavery -- North Carolina, Western

Lucy Ann Perry Siler is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The audio is unavailable for this interview. Siler, born in 1894, grew up in the Texana community near Murphy. She talks about her grandmother who was enslaved in Hayesville and her father, Spence Perry, who worked for Mrs. Nettie Dickie at the Dickie Hotel. Siler discusses race relations in Murphy which, except for an incident that put her nephew in jail, she felt were mostly positive. Siler discusses church services and customs. She talks about the Depression and raising her children.

Siler, Lucy Ann, 1894-1992

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

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

1986-08-11

Crittenden, Lorraine

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application/pdf;

transcripts

interviews

eng

Text

36186

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36186

2019-12-19

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

Hayesville (N.C.)

Clay County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

30 pages(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina