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Interview no. | R-0751 |
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 | 16 June 1982 |
Interviewee |
Grey, Sallie Finley, Lillie. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown|Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity |
African Americans African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Lillie Finley was originally from Olivia, N.C., and moved to West Southern Pines with her mother. Sallie Grey came to Pinehurst first, then up to Detroit MI for a job after she got married, then back down to Pinehurst and West Southern Pines in 1920. When Grey came back, she was hired by Dr. Cady, a dentist from New York who was instrumental in getting schools started in West Southern Pines. As with many of the interviews in this series, Mason asks the interviewee what they know about the circumstances around the Charter in 1923, especially around the contributions of Lt. Oxley and Dr. Cady. Sallie Grey answers, “I don’t know but two to one he had a little something to do with everything that got started up here and started to work. Dr. Cady was trying hard to get everything organized,” though she had only heard of Lt. Oxley through her employer, Dr. Cady. Lillie Finley discusses hospital cards that were handed out by Dr. Cady, so that West Southern Pines residents could go to the hospital without charge. Finley remarks that when she first came to West Southern Pines, “It was all woods. You didn’t hardly see any houses.” Finley describes her early school and church experiences in town. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on June 16, 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 Sallie Grey and Lillie Finley by Nancy Mason, 16 June 1982, R-0751, 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. | R0751_Audio_2 |