Crittenden, Lorraine
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Vallie Mae Bowman is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on August 11, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Bowman discusses her and siblings education levels, her parents during the depression, how they celebrated holidays, communities of Notlea and Texana, church background and conversion, dating/courting, black leaders not only for the Civil Rights Movement but also locally, "colored" hospitals, and more.
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Bowman, Vallie Mae, 1908-1989Johnson, Louise
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- African American Families
- African American Schools
- African Americans
- African Americans In Wnc
- Bowman, Vallie Mae, 1908 1989
- Cherokee County
- History
- Interviews
- Johnson, Louise
- Life Stories
- North Carolina
- North Carolina, Western
- Race Relations
- Religious Life
- Segregation
- Slaver
- Slaves
- Social Conditions
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