Interview with Hilliard Gibbs

Interview with Hilliard Gibbs

African American businesspeople

Bowling

Champion Paper and Fibre Company -- Employees

Gibbs, Hilliard

Mechanics

African Americans

Hilliard Gibbs is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Born in the 1930s, Gibbs is a lifelong resident of Haywood County. He shares memories of growing up, including organizing the first bowling team in Haywood County and the Civil Rights Movement. He talks about working for Champion Paper Company in the auto body shop and eventually starting his own business, becoming the first Black auto body repairman within 100 miles of Haywood County. Gibbs mentions various civic duties he has participated in throughout his life, such as the Housing Authority board, the Mayor

Gibbs, Hilliard

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2019-05-26

Todd, Michael

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sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

63990

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63990

North Carolina, Western

1:00:38(duration)

11(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina