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Interview no. | R-0766 |
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 | 18 March 1982 |
Interviewee | Waddell, Joe. |
Interviewee occupation | Barbers |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Nancy Mason remarks that Waddell said that he did his courting in West Southern Pines. Waddell confirms this, and stated that he married his wife in 1928, and had been living in West Southern Pines for two to three years before he was married. Waddell remarks that when he first came to West Southern Pines from Richmond County, it felt like a big city, but he soon learned that it was a small community and practically everyone knew each other. Waddell became a barber when he was just a boy, beginning at a barbershop on Gaines Street. A black police officer named Bo Weaver actually rented out the space and Waddell ran the barbershop there. He split his time between the barbershop and on the golf courses, working as a caddy. Waddell relates that he comes from a large family, one of eleven boys and two girls. As a young man, it was Waddell’s impression that only the Mayor and his board were very involved in town politics. Waddell was a young newcomer shortly after the charter was approved and didn’t know many details surrounding the process. Joe Waddell claims that he never intended to settle down in Southern Pines and that the prices and taxes are high now, but that it has a good atmosphere. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on March 18, 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 Joe Waddell by Nancy Mason, 18 March, 1982, R-0766, 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. | R0766_Audio_1 |