Interview with Hazel Whiteside and Louise Allen

Interview with Hazel Whiteside and Louise Allen

African American churches

African American schools

African American women clergy

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Allen, Mae Louise, 1922-2016

Allen, Mae Louise, 1922-2016 -- Childhood and youth

Autobiography

Cemeteries

Community organizations

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

School integration

Western Carolina University -- Employees

Whiteside, Hazel, 1923- -- Childhood and youth

Whiteside, Hazel, 1923- -- Interviews

Adrien Litzau interviews sisters Hazel Whiteside and Louise Allen (Mae Louise Allen) on October 22, 2004 for the Western North Carolina Oral History Project. Born in 1923 and 1922, Whiteside and Allen have been members of AME Mount Zion Church in Cullowhee their entire lives. Included with their interview are 35 images of the cemetery and the church. The first image shown is the unmarked grave of a slave. They discuss the history of the church including their dad’s role in the relocation of the church and cemetery to make room for the growing Western Carolina Teachers College. Whiteside and Allen talk about growing up in the church, their role in the church, and its role in the wider community. They talk about their experience going to school (including having to cross the river on a boat) and growing up as African Americans in Jackson County.

Allen, Mae Louise, 1922-2016

Whiteside, Hazel, 1923-

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);

2004-10-22

Litzau, Adrien

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Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Cullowhee (N.C.)

0:53:39 (sound recording)(duration)

19 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina