Interview wtih Ethel Tate

Interview wtih Ethel Tate

African American families

African American farmers

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Americans -- Social life and customs

Autobiography

Depressions -- 1929

Enslaved persons

Farm life

Mines and mineral resources

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

Race discrimination

Segregation

Tate, Ethel, 1904-1994 -- Childhood and youth

Tate, Ethel, 1904-1994 -- Interviews

Western Carolina University -- Employees

Ethel Rogers Tate (1904-1994) is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 20, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Tate was born in 1904 in East LaPorte. Her father worked in mica mines and the children helped. Tate talks about schooling, the Depression, wars, her experience with the Civil Rights movement and racial inequality. She and her husband Millard "Miller" Tate (1902-1982) owned a car and their house in the thirties. He was a farmer and a truck driver. After her children were grown, Tate worked as a maid at Western Carolina University.

Tate, Ethel, 1904-1994

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s;

1986-05-20

Crittenden, Lorraine

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interviews

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2019-02-26

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Jackson County (N.C.)

McDowell County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

1:11:48 (sound recordings)(duration)

39 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina