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Interview no. | R-0750 |
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 | 11 March 1982 |
Interviewee | Flowers, Thomas. |
Interviewee occupation | Clergy |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Reverend Thomas Flowers recalls moving to West Southern Pines in 1913, when he was twelve years old. His grandmother, Laura Henderson, was already living there, and his father allowed him to stay with her and take a job washing dishes. His grandmother was one of the early settlers from Anson County. Flowers went to school irregularly, as he spent a significant amount of his time at work. Reverend Flowers and the interviewer go into some detail over the timeline of events surrounding the West Southern Pines Charter, and Lt. Oxley’s role in securing the charter. Flowers shares anecdotes about friends, neighbors, and various community members. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on March 11, 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 Thomas Flowers by Nancy Mason, 11 March 1982, R-0750, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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