Interview with Julia Young

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Interview with Julia Young

HL_MSS98-03_Smith_Young_1986-03-25_transcript

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- Format
  - Transcripts
  - Interviews
- Type
  - Text
- Extent
  - Duration: 10 pages (transcript)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS98-03_Smith_Young_1986-03-25_transcript
Transcript

Young 1 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TOMORROW BLACK ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Interviewee: Julia Young (JY) Interviewer: Edward Clark Smith (I) County: Madison Date: March 25, 1986 Duration: 35:09 Edward Clark Smith: Now, Ms. Young, do you remember how your relatives first came to Yancey County? Julia Young: No, that's one thing I don't know. I can tell you about my mother, but she was in Yancy County the first thing I remember of her. My grandmother was a slave. She was Lucinda Wilson, my mother’s mother, and they lived up Swiss on the head of Ball Creek. Grandma did, I can remember her. She died when I was 11 years old. I: She had been a slave? JY: Uh huh. She had been a slave. I: Did she ever talk to you about what it was like being a slave? JY: Well, she said the man that owned her was good to her, said he was as good to her as could be. She was a slave and the man that raised her was her father. The man that owned her was her father. He owned her mother and he had her by her mother as a sla

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Julia Rucker Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on March 25, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in Yancey County in 1906, Young talks about growing up on the farm and attending school and church services. She recalls going blind for three months and how she regained her sight. Young describes how she became a seamstress in Mitchell County, North Carolina for 24 years. She also discusses segregation, voting, and herbal remedies such as boneset.
Details
- Creator
  - Young, Julia, 1906-1997
- Contributor
  - Smith, Edward Clark
- Format
- Type
  - Sound
  - Text
- Date
  - Date interview: 1986-03-25
  - Date: 1900s (Decade); 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;
  - Date digitized: 2019-02-26
- Extent
  - Duration: 0:35:09 (sound recording)
  - Duration: 10 pages (transcript)
- Subject - Topic
- Location
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS98-03_Smith_Young_1986-03-25
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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