Interview with Dennis Rogers

Interview with Dennis Rogers

African American churches

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African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

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Rogers, Dennis, 1958- -- Interviews

Western Carolina University -- Employees

Scott McKenzie interviews Dennis Rogers on November 23, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born January 31, 1958 in Jackson County, Rogers has been a lifelong member of the AME Mount Zion Church, which his great grandfather, Lewis Rogers co-founded. He recalls the Feast-in-the-Wilderness when all the Black churches in the area came together on the fifth Sunday. He shares his thoughts on the relocation of the church and cemetery to make room for the growing Western Carolina Teachers College, and how they would like to designate the church as a historic building, so they don’t have to move it again. He discusses the changes in the black community at Western and in the region.

Rogers, Dennis, 1958-

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

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

2004-11-23

McKenzie, Scott

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2020-08-20

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Cullowhee (N.C.)

00:16:01 (sound recording)(duration)

5 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina