Interview with Victoria McDonald

Interview with Victoria McDonald

African American churches

African American schools

African American teachers

African American women clergy

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Autobiography

Casey McDonald, Victoria A.

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

School integration

Western Carolina University -- Alumni and alumnae

Western Carolina University

Scott McKenzie interviews Victoria McDonald (Victoria A. Casey McDonald) on November 12, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born February 26, 1943, in Jackson County, McDonald was a member of the AME Mount Zion Church until the late 1950s when her family became members of Maize Chapel in Sylva. She talks about the Feast-in-the-Wilderness when all the Black churches in the area came together on the fifth Sunday. She discusses her thoughts on integration and why the church did not discuss the Civil Rights Movement. She recalls some of the history of the church, including the relocation of the church and the cemetery to make room for the growing Western Carolina Teachers College. She describes Jackson School, a segregated school in Sylva which she attended, and Allen School in Asheville which she did not attend. She shares her experience with Teacher Corps and becoming a teacher at Log Cabin School. She talks about working at Western as a Black person and how AME Mount Zion church has evolved with Damita Wilder as pastor.

Casey McDonald, Victoria A.

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

1920s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2004-11-12

McKenzie, Scott

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2020-08-20

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Jackson County (N.C.)

Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Cullowhee (N.C.)

10 pages (transcript)(duration)

43:00 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina