Interview with Dorothea A. Siler

Interview with Dorothea A. Siler

African American churches

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African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

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Siler, Dorothea A., 1955- -- Interviews

Western Carolina University -- Employees

Bobby Clester interviews Dorothea A. Siler on December 2, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in 1955, Siler has been a member of the AME Mount Zion Church in Cullowhee all of her life, although for a time she lived in Knoxville. Her mother was a Rogers and her father was an Allen and her grandfather was a founding member of the church. Siler shares her experiences with the church such as spending Sundays from nine to four, and the change in membership over the years. Siler recounts stories she heard growing up about the relocation of the church and cemetery to make room for the growing Western Carolina Teachers College.

Siler, Dorothea A., 1955-

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

1920s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 2000s (Decade);

2004-12-02

Clester, Bobby

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2020-08-20

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Jackson County (N.C.)

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Cullowhee (N.C.)

00:14:08 (sound recording)(duration)

7 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina