University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Title |
Willie Mae H. Brown Oral History | |
| Creator | Karen VanEman | |
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Subject |
Asheville Urban Renewal --- Asheville, NC |
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Stephens Lee High School, Martin Luther King Jr. Award, Andrea Clark, East End Asheville Photographs 1968 |
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Description |
Reviewing the photographs in the Andrea Clark publication of East End
Asheville, Willie Mae Brown describes the Asheville area, before the Urban Renewal Project of the 60s and after. |
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Publisher |
D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 28804 |
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Contributor |
Interviewer: Karen VanEman | |
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Date |
Electronic Record Issued: 2009-04-15 |
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Type |
Sound ; Text |
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Format |
1 cassette tape; TRANSCRIPT |
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Identifier |
http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/AUR/vaneman_karen/brown_willie_mae.html |
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Source |
The Karen VanEdam Oral History Collection, Asheville Urban Renewal Oral History Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville |
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Language |
English |
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Relation |
Housing Authority of the
City of Asheville Manuscript Collection. Publication: Keeping the Promise |
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Coverage |
1940s-present | |
| Rights | Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. | |
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Acquisition |
Donor number: 353 ; Date of acquisition: 2009-04-15 |
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Processed By |
Special Collections staff | |
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Interview Date |
2008-03-07 | |
| Interview Location | Unknown | |
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Biography |
.Willie Mae H. Brown was born in 1935 in Asheville, North Carolina.
She is married to Bobby Brown and has two children, Linda Glaze and
Robert E. Brown. Being involved in the Asheville community has always
been important to Ms. Brown. In 2008, she was on the Board of the
Asheville-Buncombe Community Relations Commission and the only
African-American on the Board of Quality Forward since 1988. Ms. Brown has been on the Planning Board for the M. L. King Breakfast in Asheville. In 1992, she was the recipient of the M. L. King Jr. Award for Asheville. |
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