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Interview no. | K-0516 |
Restrictions | Permission from interviewee required for quotation. |
Project | K.2.19. Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Stephens-Lee High School, Asheville, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, conducted by Kelly Navies in 1998, with former faculty, administrators, and students at Stephens-Lee High School in Asheville, N.C., about the school and the impact of desegregation. Built in 1923, for decades Stephens-Lee was western North Carolina's only secondary school for African Americans, drawing students from many counties and serving as a source of pride for the extended African American community. In 1965, Stephens-Lee was closed as part of the area's desegregation plan, and, in 1975, most of the campus was bulldozed. |
Date | 2 April 1999 |
Interviewee | Johnson, Bertha B. |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Navies, Kelly Elaine. |
Subject Topical |
School integration--North Carolina. North Carolina--Race relations. African Americans--North Carolina. African Americans--Education--North Carolina. Asheville (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Education--North Carolina. Segregation in education--North Carolina. Asheville (N.C.)--Race relations. High schools--North Carolina--Buncombe County. |
Subject Name | Stephens-Lee High School (Asheville, N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Bertha B. Johnson by Kelly Elaine Navies, 2 April 1999 K-0516, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | K0516_Audio_1 |