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Interview no. | R-0758 |
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 | 28 June 1982 |
Interviewee | Lewis, Norma. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Norma Lewis does not remember when she first came to West Southern Pines , but claims that she was five or six years old, and states, “I think we were the second house built on this block which would be North Stephens Street.” Lewis states that she attended school with as many as fifty students in one room. She shares her memory of the infamous shooting of Amos Broadway. She had positive feelings toward Broadway, as she would hang out at his “piccolo” when she was a teenager. A piccolo, Lewis explains, is a club that plays its own music. Lewis was eighteen when she left West Southern Pines for New York, where she lived almost 30 years. She speculates that East Southern Pines revoked the Charter because “they are all a whole anyway and they all needed to work together.” This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on June 28, 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 Norma Lewis by Nancy Mason, 28 June 1982, R-0758, 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. | R0758_Audio |