Interview with Sibyl Blakley

Interview with Sibyl Blakley

African American churches

African American schools

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Americans -- Social conditions

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Autobiography

Blakley, Sibyl, 1940-2014

Blakley, Sibyl, 1940-2014 -- Childhood and youth

Cemeteries

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

Community organizations

Race discrimination

Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Segregation

Western Carolina University -- Employees

Colin Bilichka interviews Sibyl Blakley on November 3, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in 1940, Blakley has been a member of the AME Mount Zion Church in Cullowhee for as long as she can remember. She speaks about the history of the church, its role in the community, and how it has changed over time. She relays what she knows about the relocation of the church and cemetery to make room for the growing Western Carolina Teachers College. She talks about various jobs she has had at Western Carolina University and discusses her experience going to school and growing up as an African American person in Jackson County.

Blakley, Sibyl, 1940-2014

Western North Carolina Oral History Project Collection

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

1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade);

2004-11-03

Bilichka, Colin

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application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

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interviews

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2020-08-12

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Cullowhee (N.C.)

Southern States

0:58:27 (sound recording)(duration)

15 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina