Crittenden, Lorraine

Description

Eliza Jane Coward Thomas is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 6, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Thomas was born on Long Branch in Cullowhee in 1893. She talks about her childhood in Jackson County where she grew up living with her uncle in a tight knit community. She describes Asheville and working for E. B. Glenn, a doctor at Meriwether Hospital, watching his children, cleaning, and cooking and then working for the Frye family. Thomas had a good experience with both families and good relationships with white people in general her entire life.

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Western Carolina University

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center