  THE HERITAGE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA - A COLLABORATIVE DATABASE Asheville Art Museum | Asheville Historic Resources Commission | Asheville-Buncombe Library | UNC Asheville | YMI Cultural Center |
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Ashemore, Harry
"The South's Year of Decision" 1948-01-01 An article on the failure of the Dixie-crats to gain victory in their bid for the presidency of the United States. The Dixie-crats, led by Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ran on a platform that exploited race issues. |
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Alexander, J. Trent
The great Migration in Comparative Perspective: Interpreting Urban Origins of Southern Black Migrants to Depression Era Pittsburgh 1998 Black migration into Pittsburgh, PA during the 1930's. |
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Beck, Monica L.
"A Fer Ways Off From The Big House": The Changing Nature of Slavery in the South Carolina Backcountry Editor: Crass, D. no date A collection of essays written about southern slavery during the colonial period. |
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Editor: Alferdteen Harrison
Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South 1991 A collection of essays devoted to 20th century black migration from the American South. |
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Gloster, Hugh
"The Negro Writer and the Southern Scene" 1948-01-01 An article about how Negro writers utilized southern images and themes in their works. Dr. Gloster was head of the communications center of the Department of Language and Literature at Hampton Institute. |
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Grossman, James R.
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration 1989 20th century African-American Migration |
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Hughes, Langston
Fight For Freedom: The Story of the NAACP 1962 No description. |
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Kellog, Charles Flint
NAACP, A History of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People n.d. No description. |
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Lawrence, Randy
Black Migration to Southern West Virginia, 1870-1930 1997 (1979) no description |
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Library of Congress
The African American Mosaic 2-13-2000 A small sample of images and text held by the Library of Congress relating to the African-American experience. Online presentation includes narrative of former slaves, black migration, and information on the colonization of Liberia. |
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Marks, Carole
Farewell--We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration 1989 20th Century black migration from the American South. |
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Minchin, Timothy J.
Color Means Something: Black Pioneers, White Resistance and Interracial Unionism in the Southern Textile Industry 1957-1980 no date no description |
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Nelson, Bruce
CIO Meant One Thing For Whites And Another For Us: Steelworking and Civil Rights 1936-1974 Editor: R. Zieger no date no description |
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Pamphlets of the Ku Klux Klan
(1918-1928) A small collection containing the minutes from the Klan's first national meeting held in Asheville N.C. in 1923. |
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Roethler, Michael
Negro slavery among the Cherokee Indians, 1540-1866 1964 Ph. D. thesis written for Fordham University. |
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Trigg, Harold
"A Calm Report On the Negro's Progress" 1947-06-01 A review of Charles S Johnson's book "Intro The Main Stream." The book explores the progress made by Negroes in the United States through World War II. |
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Trotter, Joe William, Jr., Ed. The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class and Gender 1991 A collection of essays that examine black migration from a historical perspective. |
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Trotter Jr., Joe W.
Black Miners in West Virginia: Class and Community responses to Workplace Discrimination, 1920-1930 1996 editor: J Laslett no date no description |
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Turner, William H. and Edward J. Cabbell. (forword
by Nell Irvin Painter. Blacks in Appalachia. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1985 |
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UNCA Website
African-American History Reference Materials 2001-01-04 http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/lib/rr/afamref.html An online list of reference materials available at UNCA's Ramsey library. |
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UNCA Website
African-American History Web Resources 2001-01-16 http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/lib/rr/afam.html A list of websites that focus on African-American history and culture. Updated regularly. |
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UNC-Chapel Hill Library
The Church in the Southern Black Community 2001-02-06 A digitized collection of texts focusing on the church and the southern black community. Collection can be viewed in HTML or SGML. |
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UNC-Chapel Hill Library
North American Slave Narratives no date Digitized collection of slave narratives selected from several universities including Chapel Hill, Duke, North Carolina Central and others. Includes first hand slave accounts. |
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Unknown author
Life at Friendfield (South Carolina) 1942 Un attributed memoir of antebellum life at Friendfield, a rice plantation on the Sampit river, five miles from Georgetown, S.C. written as a tribute to the late Alice Foster Gilmore. Includes information on Blacks in NC. |
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Black Banjo Songsters
Editor Cece Conway no date A collection of Negro banjo folksongs from Virginia and North Carolina on Compact Disc |
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Brown, Hugh
Victor A History of Education of Negroes in North Carolina 1961 no description |
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Crow, Jeffery
J. A History of African -Americans in North Carolina 1992 no description |
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Cooke, Dennis
Hargrove The White Superintendent and the Negro Schools in North Carolina 1930 no description |
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Crow, Jeffery
J. The Black Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina 1977 no description |
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Crow, Jeffery
J The Black Presence in North Carolina 1978 no description |
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Crow, Jeffery
J Black Americans in North Carolina and the South 1984 no description |
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Eight hand Set and Holy Steps: Early Dance Tunes and songs of
Praise from North Carolina's Black Tradition
Editor Glenn Hinson Originally issued in 1979; reissued as a project of the Folk life section of the North Carolina Arts Council and the North Carolina Museum of History. Contains historical and biographical notes. |
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FBI file on the Black Panther Party, North Carolina
1980 Files trace the activities of the Black Panther Party in North Carolina from 1968 to 1976. Also contains information about the activities of a number of other radical groups in the state including the National Committee to Combat Fascism--United Front Against fascism--Young Patriots --Progressive Labor Party--Southern Student Organizing Committee--Organization of Afro-American Unity --American Civil Liberties Union--Students for a Democratic Society--Southern Conference Education Fund |
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Gaillard,
Frye Becoming Truly Free: 300 years of Black History in the Carolinas 1985 no description |
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Governor's Commission for the study of Problems in
the
Education of Negroes in North Carolina
Editor: Nathan Newbold Carter 1935 no description |
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Holt,
George The North Carolina Black Folk Heritage Tour 1985 no description |
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Long, Hollis
Moody Public Secondary Education for Negroes in North Carolina 1932 no description |
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Reaves,
Bill North Carolina Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company Records 1992 Editor: Beverly Tetterton no description |
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Rich Heritage of African- Americans in North Carolina
2000 Summary of a series of newspaper articles which appeared in the Charlotte Observer, Feb. and March 1982. |
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Sexton,
Mark
S The Chalice and the Covenant: A History of the New Covenant Baptist Association 1868-1975 1976 Explores the historical association between thirteen small black churches in North Carolina and Virginia that make up the New Covenant Baptist association. (Book reviewed in the Appalachian journal, Spring-Summer 1977) |
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Simmons-Henry,
Linda, Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina 1990 no description |
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UNCA African Americans in North Carolina and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1995 Editor: Timothy D Pyatt no date Guide to African American documentary resources in North Carolina |
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White, Frank Hollowell The Economic and Social Development of Negroes in North Carolina since 1900 no date no description |
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Walker, Jaqueline
Baldwin Blacks in North Carolina During Reconstruction 1981 Thesis |
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Wooley, Robert
Howard Race and Politics: The Evolution of the White Supremacy Campaign of 1898 in North Carolina 1977 Ph.D. thesis written for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Allison,
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Arthur, John
Preston Western North Carolina: A History (from 1730 to 1913) 1914 Location: UNCA Special Collections Brief mention of Negro slaveholding in western North Carolina. |
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Aycock Family Papers
no date University of South Carolina-Colombia Aycock Family papers including- letters to a son in Asheville N.C., Negro participation in the presidential elections, etc. |
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Davis, Lenwood |
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Fox,
Cheryl
Up From Slavery into Middle Class: E.W Pearson's Burton Street Community 1999-11-01 Location: UNCA Special Collections A senior history thesis focusing on local community leader E.W. Pearson in the early 1900's to raise the standard of living in the Burton Street Community of Asheville North Carolina. |
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Fitzsimmons Frank
L. From the Banks of the Oklawaha Volumes 1-3 1977 UNCA Special Collections A history of Henderson County North Carolina (Hendersonville). History is told in individual stories, anecdotes and tall tales. |
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Freeze,
Gary The Catawbans: Crafters of a North Carolina County 1747-1900 1995 Location: UNCA Special Collections A history of Catawba county. Includes some history and photographs of African-American life. |
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Greenberg,
Sue Asheville: A Postcard History 1997 Location: UNCA Special Collections A pictorial history of Asheville through postcards. Contains a few images of African Americans. |
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Hayden,
Wilburn Population characteristics of Blacks Living In the Western North Carolina Area of the Appalachian Region 1984 Western Carolina University Paper presented at the 7th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference at Helen Georgia, March 24, 1984. |
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Herring, Lucy
S. A Black Legacy and Struggle 1943 Newspaper Article Pack memorial Library - Asheville An article from the Asheville Citizen-Times July 31, 1943. |
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Herring, Lucy
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Huger-Pickney papers
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Inscoe, John
C. Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crises in North Carolina 1996 Appalachian State University no description. |
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John H. Tarbell Collection
ca. 1900 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill A collection of glass negative portraits and landscapes largely unidentified, but thought to have been made in the vicinity of Asheville, N.C. |
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Johnston,
Bruce Built for the Ages: A History of the Grove Park Inn 1991 Location: UNCA Special Collections A history of the Asheville N.C. Inn from the Planning stages through 1991. Includes photographs of black workmen employed during the construction stage. |
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Johnstone Family Papers
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King,
Chris Bascom Lamar Lunsford 2001-01-101 http://www.hoobellatoo.org/fnotedetail.cfnn?FNID=9 A website that highlights the life of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, a musician and conservator of western North Carolina musical tradition. Lunsford learned and recorded native Cherokee and Negro songs along with traditional mountain music. The website has links to other sources on Lunsford. |
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Langley,
Joan Yesterday's Asheville 1975 UNCA-Ramsey Library no description |
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Lee,
Bryan |
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McKinney,
Gordon "Economy and Community in Western North Carolina, 1860-1865" 1995 UNCA-Ramsey Library Chapter in the book Appalachia in the Making discusses African American contributions. (McKinney, 1995) |
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Massengill, Stephen
E. Western North Carolina: A Visual Journey Through Stereo Views and photographs 1999 Location: UNCA Special Collections A pictorial history of Western North Carolina. Includes several images of blacks in Asheville N. C. and the surrounding area. |
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Messinger,
Denise In Black and White: Images of African-Americans in the Asheville Daily Citizen 1997-11-01 Location: UNCA Special Collections A senior history thesis that examines racial attitudes as expressed in the Asheville Citizen newspaper preceding the disfranchisement of African-Americans in the Southern United States during the late 1800's. |
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Mead,
Martha Asheville in the Land of the Sky 1942 Location: UNCA Special Collections A general history of Asheville and the surrounding area. Contains a brief reference to African-American presence in Flat Rock N.C. (Henderson County). |
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Mosley-Edington
Helen Angels Unaware: Asheville's Women of Color 1986 Location: UNCA Special Collections Oral history an biographies of 45 African- Americans women in Asheville. |
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Minutes of the University Commission on Southern Race Questions
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NAACP Legal File 1940-55
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NAACP Branch Department files. Regional offices. Southeast regional office
no date Topics include membership campaigns, minutes from meetings, voter registration, branch office information etc. |
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Negro Citizens in Asheville
1943 Newspaper Article Pack memorial Library - Asheville An editorial from the Asheville Citizen-Times January 6, 1943. |
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Negro Leaders in Asheville
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Ready,
Milton Asheville : Land of the Sky 1986 Location: UNCA Special Collections A history of Asheville with an entire chapter devoted to African Americans. |
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Ready,
Milton A History of Pride 1983 Newspaper article Pack memorial Library - Asheville An article from the Asheville citizen-Times February 13, 1983. |
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Sondley, Foster
Alexander A History of Buncombe County North Carolina Vol. 1 & 2 1930 Location: UNCA Special Collections A general history of Buncombe County North Carolina. |
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Terrell,
Bob Historic Asheville 1997 Location: UNCA Special Collections General history of Asheville. Contains some historical information and images of African American life. |
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Tessier, Mitzi Schaden The State of Buncombe 1992 Location: UNCA Special Collections A general history of Buncombe County North Carolina through images and text. |
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Tessier, Mitzi Schaden Asheville: A Pictorial History 1982 Location: UNCA Special Collections. A general history of Asheville through photographs. |
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Ward, Doris
Cline Old Buncombe County Heritage-North Carolina Vol. 1 & 2 1981 Location: UNCA Special Collections A general history of Buncombe County North Carolina through images and text. |
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UNCA online
collection The Black Highlanders Collection 2001-01-16 This collection contains institutional and biographical on the African-American community in Asheville known as the Black Highlanders. Materials span from the late nineteenth century until 1972 include information on black congregations, schools, newspapers, WWI military involvement, community leadership, and local businessmen. The collection is drawn from biographies, oral histories, newspapers, photographs etc. |
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