Interview with Cyritha "Rea" West

Interview with Cyritha "Rea" West

African American churches

African American schools

African American women clergy

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Autobiography

Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Community organizations

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

School integration

West, Cyritha, 1950-2017 -- Childhood and youth

West, Cyritha, 1950-2017 -- Interviews

Anne Collins interviews Cyritha “Rea” West on November 1, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born February 6, 1950 in Jackson County to William and Ella Mae Rogers, West talks about growing up in the AME Mount Zion Church and the changes she has seen over the years. She discusses how foreign it felt to go to an all-white school in 1964 when the schools in Jackson County became integrated during the period of desegregation. She discusses the Civil Rights movement as she experienced it in Jackson County and witnessing firsthand the rioting in Washington D.C. on a high school trip. She also discusses becoming a minister.

West, Cyritha, 1950-2017

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2004-11-01

Collins, Anne

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sound recordings

interviews

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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.)

00:41:43 (sound recording)(duration)

17 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina