WCU Special Collections/Courtesy of Hallie Lackie
Western Carolina University’s Special Collections library has digitized a new collection called Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The collection is made up of interviews with Black residents from Western North Carolina during the late 1980s. All the subjects were over the age of 69.
In 1986, Juanita Jones was interviewed by Edward Clark Smith for the project. She remembers growing up in Asheville during the Great Depression.
Smith asked,
“So now on Eagle Street was kind of the main district for Black people then?”
“Yes, that and down on Southside. Down at the corner of Southside and French Board. I can’t recall that man’s name. He had a restaurant down there. Two or three Black people had restaurants down there…But all that’s gone,” said Jones.
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