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Interview with Arthur Clark Smith
No full textArthur Clark Smith is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on February 5, 1987 as part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born on December 2, 1902, Smith discusses his family members and growing up on a farm in Mitchell County, North Carolina. He recalls his mother digging roots to sell at the market to make medicine, attending school and church, and celebrating Christmas. Smith talks about a flood destroying homes and businesses around 1916 and frost damaging crops in 1917. He describes how one of his brothers, Hobert, was killed by a white man while working on the railroad. At 21 years old, Smith remembers moving to McDowell County and then Kentucky to work in the coal mines. He moved to Asheville about 1935 where he worked at the Davenport Hotel as a dishwasher and later as a street paver for the Scenic Highway. Smith describes segregated conditions of water fountains, stores, and transportation in Asheville. He also describes voting for the first time
Interview with Birdell Love Smith
No full textBirdell Love Smith is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on September 16, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Living in Haywood County all her life, Smith talks about her family lineage and attending school and church fundraisers. She discusses activities such as candy pulling, Christmas, Fourth of July, courting, church customs, and funerals. Smith recalls restrictions on goods during the Great Depression and how the civil rights movement improved social and working conditions for African Americans
Halftone of painting of Governor Edward Clark
No full textPhotograph shows bust portrait of Edward Clark, governor of Texas, 1861
Margaret Breen giving a talk on Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson
No full textPhoto of Margaret Breen (University of Connecticut) discussing author Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson. Breen gave a talk titled “Queer Translations: Prime-Stevenson’s Imre (1906) and The Intersexes (1908) and the Emergence of Homosexual Identity”. This talk was from the event German Discovery of Sex: Medicine, Activism, Literature which took place on April 16, 2011 as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair Programming for the 2010-2011 season. Robert Tobin was the Henry J. Leir Chair from 2008 up until his passing in 2022.
These are Robert Tobin\u27s photos, originally hosted on his WordPress site provided by Clark University.https://commons.clarku.edu/tobindiscphotos/1009/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Manuel Briscoe
No full textManuel Briscoe is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Briscoe talks about sharecropping quite a bit in the beginning, church customs changing, excitement for Christmas as a child, black leadership, his elementary school being named after a slave, respecting everyone, local legislation, and more
Interview with Roosevelt Jeter
No full textRoosevelt Jeter is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1904, Jeter moved to Asheville in 1934 from Union, South Carolina, Jeter talks about the changes in race relations that he has seen over the years and between the two places
Interview with Frederick Miller
No full textFrederick Miller is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on August 27, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1917, Miller lost his parents at an early age and was raised by his aunt and uncle. Miller moved to Asheville when he was 12 and attended Hill Street School and then Stephens-Lee where he won first prize in a state musical contest for vocals. Smith graduated from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Miller describes the inner politics of the black community that existed as he was growing up and how that has changed
Interview with Juanita Jones
No full textJuanita Gudger Jones (1914-2010) is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on February 23, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Jones was born in Asheville where she grew up during the Great Depression. She talks about what it means to be a Christian and how that has changed. Jones talks about racial inequalities, funerals, black businesses in Asheville, and working for the WPA
Interview with Rufus Adell
No full textRufus Scott Adell is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on July 22, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Adell talks about his grandaddy, his first job in 1926, coming to Asheville by himself, his siblings, Christmas time, being married twice and having children, how his son was killed, raising pigs, his opinion of President Reagan, and more
Interview with Alverta Lowman
No full textAlverta Lowman is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 24, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Lowman describes cleaning houses for different families in Asheville and Cullowhee. She recalls church services, working at an early age, and the treatment of African Americans. Lowman discusses segregated conditions such as sitting in the back of the bus and eating in the back of a restaurant
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