African Americans in western North Carolina

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	Ramsey Library Special Collections holds many collections that contain information on African Americans in western North Carolina. One particular collection, "Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection is a unique resource and the largest body of information on Asheville, Buncombe County and western North Carolina's African Americans. Another extensive collection of material recently acquired from the city of Asheville is the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville [HACA] records. This very large collection traces many of the urban renewal projects that resulted in the displacement of many of Asheville's African Americans (see particularly the "Publications" series in this collection for an overview of the many projects.
The East Riverside Photographs collection provides an early visual record of the many families that were affected by the urban renewal process in Asheville. We welcome contributions to our holdings and would also welcome any information on individuals who are not identified in any of our visual records of African Americans.
Asheville YWCA Archive
*Buncombe* County Planning Council Collection
East Riverside Photographs
George W. McCoy Collection
Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection
Housing Authority of the City of Asheville [HACA]
Ku Klux Klan
Slave Narratives (Ramsey Research Guide)
League of Women Voters of Asheville/Buncombe County
Lucy S. Herring Collection
Papers of Congressman Roy Arthur Taylor (1959-1977) Taylor's papers contain references to chool affairs including busing and integration, and other issues of importance in the 1960s.
Ora Rives Collection
William Dudley Pelley Collection,
Helen Tasarov *Reed* Papers
Phyllis Wheatly Branch of YWCA (see Asheville YWCA Archive)
Race and Ethnicity in Heritage of Western North Carolina Collections.
Newspaper - Louise Jackson *Wright* Collection (1925-1942)
Freedom's journal : the first African-American newspaper by Jacqueline Bacon (Book)
Appalachian notes (Periodicals)
Blues Music (Ramsey Research Guide)
African-American History (Ramsey Research Guide)
African-American History Reference (Reference Guide)
" Black Highlanders in World War I " - A brief essay written by Jean McKissick McNeill is part of the Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection,
ORAL HISTORY
The Voices of Asheville Project (VOA), collected by Dorothy Joynes from 1992-1998. contains over 13 % of the interviews tken from the African-Americans in the Asheville Community.Many of the interviews are attiitudinal studies that cross class, race and gender, and generation. African American residents aer also included in the Southern Highland Research Center Collections and in the South Asheville Colored Cemetery (1840-1943). Many of the interviews have been summarized, but are not transcribed.

	Brewer, Benjamin [Reverend]
	Brewer, Doris
	Brewer, Rosa Gordon
	Burgan, Ethel
	Caldwell, E. Thelma
	Collington, Hazel
	Fuller, Margaret
	Gibson, George
	Greenlee, Tyrone (see O.T. Tomes)
	Haith, Lacy and Harriett
	Hardy, Forest
	Harrison, Lucy Mae
	Hill, Donald (see Collington, Hazel)
	Holmes, Carrie Lucille (see Brewer, Doris)
	Huff, Wade
	Jackson, Dorothy
	Jackson, Elizabeth (see Maxwell, Marjorie)
	Jones, Minnie
	Lingerfelt, Joseph
	Mapp, Saint Ola
	Maxwell, Marjorie
	McAdams, Charlie (see Lingerfelt, Joseph)
	McDowell, Glenda I.
	McKissick, Ernest and Magnolia T.
	McQueen, Erline
	Polite, Lettie
	Ray, Jesse Sr.
	Sherrill, Booker T.
	Sherrill, O. L.
	Sherrill, Phyllis Jones
	Simmons, Oralene
	Sligh, Mary Elizabeth
	Smith, Robert "Bob"
	Tomes, O. T.
	Whitesides, Alfred J. Jr. and Shirley
	Williams, Dee (see South Asheville Colored Cemetery)
	Williams, Genevieve Pain
	Williams, Mary C. (see Jones, Minnie)