Interview with Otylia Sudderth

Interview with Otylia Sudderth

African American families

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Civil rights

African Americans -- Economic conditions

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

Autobiography

Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Depressions -- 1929

Enslaved persons

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

Segregation

Slavery -- North Carolina, Western

Sudderth, Otylia, 1912-1989 -- Interviews

World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans

Otylia Sudderth is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 8, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The audio of the interview is unavailable, but the transcript is. Born in 1912, Sudderth’s maternal grandparents were brought over from Africa by Colonel Thomas of Cherokee, presumably William Holland Thomas. Sudderth moved to Cullowhee as a child and talks about race relations in Jackson County and her experience with segregation. She discusses the Depression, black soldiers, and the Civil Rights movement.

Sudderth, Otylia, 1912-1989

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;

1986-05-08

Crittenden, Lorraine

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2019-12-03

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Cullowhee (N.C.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

16 pages(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina