Summary of interview with Margaurite Carter Oliver

Summary of interview with Margaurite Carter Oliver

African American families

African Americans

Autobiography

Families

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

Oliver, Margaurite Carter, 1903-

Oliver, Margaurite Carter, 1903- -- Childhood and youth

Margaurite Carter Oliver is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 12, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The transcript and audio are unavailable for this interview, however Crittenden’s reflections on the interview and fact sheet are available. Oliver, born in 1903, raised her family in Murphy. Her daughter Mary Elizabeth was present during the interview and an in depth look into her life in 1974 is available in the 1979 book A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins. Jenkins stayed with Mary Elizabeth and her family for five months.

Oliver, Margaurite Carter, 1903-

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1970s;

1986-08-12

Crittenden, Lorraine

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf;

manuscripts (documents)

interviews

eng

Text

36189

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/36189

2019-12-03

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

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Oral Histories of Western North Carolina