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RACE , ETHNICITY & MOUNTAINEERS

African Americans:

Negro
"The Negro Problem"
Negro Vaudeville
Slavery
Slavery - Opinions on
Railroad
African Americans and Logging
Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection
East Riverside Redevelopment Project Photographs
African-American Oral Histories (UNCA)
Oral Histories of the American South (LC site)
The African-American Mosaic (LC site)
South Asheville Colored Cemetery (1840-1943)
Integration and the YWCA (see Asheville YWCA Archive)
Asheville YWCA Archive
John Dawson Collection
The Black heritage of western North Carolina (Book)
George W. McCoy Collection
Helen Tasarov Reed Collection
The William Dudley Pelley Collection
Newspaper - Louise Jackson Wright Collection (1925-1942)
Newspaper - Freedom's journal : the first African-American newspaper by Jacqueline Bacon (Book)
Appalachian notes (Periodicals)
Blues Music (Research Guide)
African-American History (Research Guide)
African-American History Reference (Reference Guide)

"Mountaineers"::

Mountaineers
Mountaineer - First Settlers
Mountaineer Children
Mountain Women
Mountaineer Moonshine, history
Oral Histories (esp. The Sandy Mush Chronicles (SMC))
BOOKS about life in Appalachia
On Horseback (Book)
The Heart of the Alleghenies (Book)
Our Mountain Work (Newsletter)
The Appalachian Appeal (Newsletter)
Wayne Martin, Master Woodcarver Collection
Arval Woody, Chair Maker

Jewish Life in Western North Carolina

Cherokee:

Asian:

Greek:

Latino:

Russian

Ukranian:

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