Western Carolina University (21)
View all
- Canton Champion Fibre Company (2308)
- Cherokee Traditions (291)
- Civil War in Southern Appalachia (165)
- Craft Revival (2211)
- George Masa Collection (311)
- Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America (3512)
- Highlights from Western Carolina University (422)
- Horace Kephart (1014)
- Journeys Through Jackson (159)
- LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County (92)
- Oral Histories of Western North Carolina (338)
- Picturing Appalachia (7081)
- Stories of Mountain Folk (413)
- Travel Western North Carolina (153)
- Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum Vitreograph Collection (129)
- Western Carolina University Herbarium (92)
- Western Carolina University: Making Memories (738)
- Western Carolina University Publications (2491)
- Western Carolina University Restricted Electronic Theses and Dissertations (146)
- Western North Carolina Regional Maps (71)
- World War II in Southern Appalachia (131)
University of North Carolina Asheville (6)
View all
- 1700s (1)
- 1810s (1)
- 1830s (2)
- 1850s (1)
- 1860s (3)
- 1870s (2)
- 1880s (1)
- 1890s (2)
- 1900s (2)
- 1920s (2)
- 1930s (10)
- 1940s (20)
- 1950s (25)
- 1960s (45)
- 1970s (40)
- 1980s (27)
- 1990s (23)
- 2000s (33)
- 2010s (36)
- 2020s (13)
- 1600s (0)
- 1800s (0)
- 1820s (0)
- 1840s (0)
- 1910s (0)
- Appalachian Region, Southern (22)
- Asheville (N.C.) (13)
- Avery County (N.C.) (1)
- Buncombe County (N.C.) (57)
- Cherokee County (N.C.) (20)
- Clay County (N.C.) (3)
- Graham County (N.C.) (15)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) (4)
- Haywood County (N.C.) (45)
- Henderson County (N.C.) (5)
- Jackson County (N.C.) (139)
- Knox County (Tenn.) (1)
- Macon County (N.C.) (17)
- Madison County (N.C.) (4)
- McDowell County (N.C.) (1)
- Mitchell County (N.C.) (5)
- Polk County (N.C.) (3)
- Qualla Boundary (6)
- Rutherford County (N.C.) (1)
- Swain County (N.C.) (30)
- Watauga County (N.C.) (2)
- Waynesville (N.C.) (1)
- Yancey County (N.C.) (3)
- Blount County (Tenn.) (0)
- Knoxville (Tenn.) (0)
- Lake Santeetlah (N.C.) (0)
- Transylvania County (N.C.) (0)
- Digital Moving Image Formats (2)
- Interviews (318)
- Manuscripts (documents) (3)
- Personal Narratives (9)
- Photographs (4)
- Portraits (2)
- Sound Recordings (329)
- Aerial Photographs (0)
- Aerial Views (0)
- Albums (books) (0)
- Articles (0)
- Artifacts (object Genre) (0)
- Bibliographies (0)
- Biography (general Genre) (0)
- Cards (information Artifacts) (0)
- Clippings (information Artifacts) (0)
- Copybooks (instructional Materials) (0)
- Crafts (art Genres) (0)
- Depictions (visual Works) (0)
- Design Drawings (0)
- Drawings (visual Works) (0)
- Envelopes (0)
- Exhibitions (events) (0)
- Facsimiles (reproductions) (0)
- Fiction (general Genre) (0)
- Financial Records (0)
- Fliers (printed Matter) (0)
- Glass Plate Negatives (0)
- Group Portraits (0)
- Guidebooks (0)
- Illustrations (layout Features) (0)
- Internegatives (0)
- Land Surveys (0)
- Letters (correspondence) (0)
- Maps (documents) (0)
- Memorandums (0)
- Minutes (administrative Records) (0)
- Negatives (photographs) (0)
- Newsletters (0)
- Newspapers (0)
- Notebooks (0)
- Occupation Currency (0)
- Paintings (visual Works) (0)
- Pen And Ink Drawings (0)
- Periodicals (0)
- Plans (maps) (0)
- Poetry (0)
- Postcards (0)
- Programs (documents) (0)
- Publications (documents) (0)
- Questionnaires (0)
- Relief Prints (0)
- Sayings (literary Genre) (0)
- Scrapbooks (0)
- Sheet Music (0)
- Slides (photographs) (0)
- Songs (musical Compositions) (0)
- Specimens (0)
- Speeches (documents) (0)
- Text Messages (0)
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center Oral Histories (25)
- WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives (71)
- Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project (69)
- A.L. Ensley Collection (0)
- Appalachian Industrial School Records (0)
- Appalachian National Park Association Records (0)
- Axley-Meroney Collection (0)
- Bayard Wootten Photograph Collection (0)
- Bethel Rural Community Organization Collection (0)
- Blumer Collection (0)
- C.W. Slagle Collection (0)
- Canton Area Historical Museum (0)
- Carlos C. Campbell Collection (0)
- Cataloochee History Project (0)
- Cherokee Studies Collection (0)
- Daisy Dame Photograph Album (0)
- Daniel Boone VI Collection (0)
- Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection (0)
- Elizabeth H. Lasley Collection (0)
- Elizabeth Woolworth Szold Fleharty Collection (0)
- Frank Fry Collection (0)
- George Masa Collection (0)
- Gideon Laney Collection (0)
- Hazel Scarborough Collection (0)
- Hiram C. Wilburn Papers (0)
- Historic Photographs Collection (0)
- Horace Kephart Collection (0)
- Humbard Collection (0)
- Hunter and Weaver Families Collection (0)
- I. D. Blumenthal Collection (0)
- Isadora Williams Collection (0)
- Jesse Bryson Stalcup Collection (0)
- Jim Thompson Collection (0)
- John B. Battle Collection (0)
- John C. Campbell Folk School Records (0)
- John Parris Collection (0)
- Judaculla Rock project (0)
- Kelly Bennett Collection (0)
- Love Family Papers (0)
- Major Wiley Parris Civil War Letters (0)
- Map Collection (0)
- McFee-Misemer Civil War Letters (0)
- Mountain Heritage Center Collection (0)
- Norburn - Robertson - Thomson Families Collection (0)
- Pauline Hood Collection (0)
- Pre-Guild Collection (0)
- Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual Collection (0)
- R.A. Romanes Collection (0)
- Samuel Robert Owens Collection (0)
- Sara Madison Collection (0)
- Sherrill Studio Photo Collection (0)
- Smoky Mountains Hiking Club Collection (0)
- Stearns-Grueninger Collection (0)
- Stories of Mountain Folk - Radio Programs (0)
- The Reporter, Western Carolina University (0)
- Venoy and Elizabeth Reed Collection (0)
- WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project (0)
- WCU Students Newspapers Collection (0)
- William Williams Stringfield Collection (0)
- Zebulon Weaver Collection (0)
- African Americans (97)
- Artisans (5)
- Cherokee pottery (1)
- Cherokee women (1)
- College student newspapers and periodicals (4)
- Education (3)
- Floods (15)
- Folk music (3)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) (1)
- Hunting (1)
- Logging (5)
- Mines and mineral resources (2)
- Rural electrification -- North Carolina, Western (2)
- School integration (14)
- Slavery (5)
- Sports (2)
- Storytelling (3)
- World War, 1939-1945 (4)
- Appalachian Trail (0)
- Cherokee art (0)
- Cherokee artists -- North Carolina (0)
- Cherokee language (0)
- Church buildings (0)
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) (0)
- Dams (0)
- Dance (0)
- Forced removal, 1813-1903 (0)
- Forest conservation (0)
- Forests and forestry (0)
- Gender nonconformity (0)
- Landscape photography (0)
- Maps (0)
- Paper industry (0)
- Postcards (0)
- Pottery (0)
- Railroad trains (0)
- Waterfalls -- Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) (0)
- Weaving -- Appalachian Region, Southern (0)
- Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern (0)
Interview with Matthew Bacoate
-
Matthew Bacoate discusses his family and life in Asheville in the 1930s and ‘40s, his experiences in the military during the Korean War, and the development of his strong work ethic and sense of self accountability. After returning to Asheville from Japan, he convinced his employers at the Starlight Bowling Alley, a whites-only establishment at the time, to let him host an after-hours bowling night for African Americans. When this weekly event led to a serendipitous integration, he leveraged his position at the bowling alley, as well as his position as a mail clerk at the Chamber of Commerce, to initiate racial integration among all of Asheville’s businesses. Additionally, Bacoate recalls urban renewal in Asheville, and some of the community activists who were vocally against it, including Susie Smith and Tallulah Rogers.
-
Part of Collection
Oral Histories of Western North Carolina
-
Interview with Nikki Brittain
-
Interview with Faustine McDonald Wilson
-
Interview with Carl Moore
-
Interview with Hazel Whiteside and Louise Allen
-
Interview with Fred Lunsford, transcript
-
Interview with Mary Sue Casey
-
Interview with David Roberts
-
Interview with Emily Neuwirth
-
Interview with Lebern Dills
