University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Title |
The Karen Vaneman Oral History Collection |
| Creator | Karen Vaneman |
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Subject |
Asheville Urban Renewal --- Asheville, NC |
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Subject |
Keeping the Promise; East Riverside; East End/Valley ; Civic Redevelopment,; Model Cities Project; Montford; Haywood/Wall Street; |
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Description |
The Housing Authority of Asheville, Urban Renewal project, is the backdrop for this study by Karen Vaneman on African-Americans living in Asheville, from the 1940s-2009. |
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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 OH carton with files for each Oral History |
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Identifier |
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Source |
The Karen Vaneman 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. 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 |
Dependent upon the dates of the specific Oral Histories |
| Interview Location | Dependent upon each Oral History session |
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Biography |
Karen Vaneman retired (with spouse Gerald L. Vaneman) to Asheville in 2001 after decades of teaching, mostly at the college level, in Michigan. Her formal education includes a Ph.D. in English from Wayne State University, M.A. in English from Ohio State and an B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. Vaneman enrolled as a part-time student at UNCA, taking an Urban Politics course with Dr. Dolly Mullen and then Dr. Sarah Judson's course on African-American History from 1865. These courses began Mrs. Vaneman's journey combining the stories of African-Americans in Asheville, living during the the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. "I found that the communities that were destroyed in the name of urban renewal indeed had a life of their own; they were living organisms whose people formed the veins and arteries of their communities, indeed the lifeblood of these communities. The voices here represent only a small fraction of the people whose lives were dramatically altered when their communities were torn apart, and we should remember their stories. Indeed I have learned much from meeting these strong and giving people and hearing their stories." |
| Oral Histories included: |
Nathaniel Bowman Jean Boyd Willie Mae Brown Trevor Chavis Zani Davidson Lawrence Gilliam James Harrison William Johnson Ruby Jones Dr. Charles Mosley |
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