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Interview no. | R-0754 |
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 | 9 June 1982 |
Interviewee |
Hasty, Bessie Hasty, Wilma. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown|Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity |
African Americans African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Wilma and Bessie Hasty are sisters, and two of eight children. Wilma was a graduate of Emmanuel Lutheran College and Fayetteville State University. She started teaching in West Southern Pines in 1933. Over the next thirty-six years she taught first and second grade. In this interview, Wilma Hasty recalls with fondness the work of her fellow teachers, including her brother, who taught music at the school. She also recalls getting the gym and the sports teams developing well and playing nearby teams. Bessie Hasty recalls getting phone service sometime in the 1940s, and of her father, Mayor James Ellis Hasty, and a few other residents, contributing personal money to get streets paved. The interviewer questioned the sisters about their father, and his thoughts on the revocation of the Charter, which was disappointing to him. Nancy Mason, the interviewer, tells Wilma and Bessie that they were exceptionally well-informed about the history of West Southern Pines due to their father’s position. Bessie tells a touching story of her father comforting her after she had reported seeing a ghost as a child. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on June 9, 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 from 1923 to 1931. |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Bessie Hasty and Wilma Hasty by Nancy Mason, 9 June 1982, R-0754, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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