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Interview no. | R-0761 |
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 | McRae, James "Rich". |
Interviewee occupation | Contractors |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | James "Rich" McRae came to West Southern Pines in 1921, and was originally from Sneads Grove, N.C. McRae remembers that part of West Southern Pines was then referred to as Jimtown, and that there was another part called Evans’s Quarters, where Eric Evans was the owner. Before moving to West Southern Pines, McRae had an unsuccessful early stint as a farmer. When the boll weevil killed his crops, he moved to West Southern Pines. He worked as a contractor and built his home on Stephenson Street. McRae went to a few town meetings when the Charter was being worked out, but opined that not much had really changed then West Southern Pines became a separate town. Similarly, when the Charter was revoked, McRae didn’t feel much of a difference because, “Most of the time I was off working.” For a time McRae was living in the same house as Dannie Harrington, West Southern Pines’ first policeman, and Dannie Harrington’s mother. Harrington would tell McRae about his time on the force, including kill |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with James "Rich" McRae by Nancy Mason, 9 June 1982, R-0761, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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