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Interview no. | R-0760 |
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 | 3 March 1982 |
Interviewee | McLean, Evelyn. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Evelyn McLean was born in 1896 in Lillington, NC, where her family were subsistence farmers. Evelyn McLean’s family arrived in Southern Pines in 1900, where her parents were employed in the summer harvesting fruit, and in the winter at a resort and as domestic workers. McLean recalls visits to East Southern Pines for the purposes of doctor and dentist visits, but mostly stayed around West Southern Pines, where most people had their own homes, gardens, and some livestock. McLean discusses the schools she attended when she was young, estimating eight-five or ninety other children at the school where Mr. Murphy was the principal. McLean’s father was a minister with the AME Zion Church, and also owned a café that served lunches, sodas, and ice cream. McLean left the area in 1916, well before the time West Southern Pines had Charter as a separate town (1923 to 31), and only returned in 1970. Mason asks further questions about events that McLean wasn’t in town to experience - like the 1920 tornado and the times during annexation when crime was up. McLean does, however, recall that there was a trolley that ran through town. McLean remembers that children entertained themselves by playing cards and playing ball. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on March 3, 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 Evelyn McLean by Nancy Mason, 3 March 1982, R-0760, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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