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Interview no. | R-0744 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.42. Special Research Projects: West Southern Pines, N.C. |
Project description | This is a collection of interviews conducted in 1982 by Nancy O. Mason of Southern Pines, North Carolina with residents of part of Southern Pines which used to be its own, predominantly Black township in the 1920s, called West Southern Pines. West Southern Pines was annexed back into Southern Pines in the 1930s, but the twenty-six interviews attest to the longevity of the West Southern Pines community. Both black and white residents of West Southern Pines tell their recollections of the incorporation of West Southern Pines and the daily lives of its inhabitants. |
Date | 3 May 1982 |
Interviewee | Austin, Edmund J. |
Interviewee occupation |
Architects and builders City council members |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Architect and city councilman E.J. Austin is a Southern Pines native. Austin relates how he first came into contact with residents of West Southern Pines because his father was a contractor and hired workers from there. Austin was a teenager when East Southern Pines annexed the town, and he claims to have not been particularly interested in this event. Some of Austin’s early building experience was through road-building in West Southern Pines. He became an elected official in the 1960s, and discusses the politics and voting patterns of West Southern Pines residents based on the leadership of churches and civic clubs. Austin, a white man, credits strong black representation on the city council for improving the quality of life conditions in West Southern Pines. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on May 3, 1982. It is part of a series of interviews with people who lived in or around West Southern Pines as it had existed as a separate and entirely African American municipality from 1923 to 1931. |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with E.J. Austin by Nancy Mason, 3 May 1982, R-0744, 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. | R0744_Audio_1 |