Interview with Andrea Clarke

Interview with Andrea Clarke

African Americans

Clarke, Andrea

Families

Miller, James Vester

Neighborhoods

Urban renewal -- North Carolina -- Asheville

Andrea Clarke recalls family history in the Clarke/Miller lineage. She also describes moving to Asheville in the late 1960s from Cambridge, Massachusetts, and her family’s experience with urban renewal in the East End neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s. She discusses helping her father manage a mental health crisis after his displacement, which left him homeless. Clarke recounts her work photographing and documenting Asheville’s East End neighborhood before and after urban renewal. Clarke created a walking trail for her grandfather, James Vester Miller, an African American who was a master brick mason and responsible for building many of the historic buildings in Asheville.

Cadmus, Emily

Clarke, Andrea

WCU Oral History Collection - Introduction to Oral History

2022-04-14

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

64155

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/64155

Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

Asheville (N.C.)

2:23:25(duration)

38(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina