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Tuesday, February 22, 2022 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Community Member Posts, Forgotten People, Local History, Women

Occupations of Black Women in Asheville, 1890 Part II: Cooks

Over the next several weeks Buncombe County Special Collections will share five different posts by former Special Collections (NC Room) Librarian Zoe Rhine. Since “retiring” in January 2020, Zoe has continued to follow her research interests; investigating the lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. Do you have research or stories about Asheville
AshevilleAsheville LibraryLibrariesWomen
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Monday, February 14, 2022 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Community Member Posts, Forgotten People, Local History, Women

Occupations of Black Women in Asheville, 1890: An Introduction

Over the next several weeks Buncombe County Special Collections will share five different posts by former Special Collections (NC Room) Librarian Zoe Rhine. Since “retiring” in January 2020, Zoe has continued to follow her research interests; investigating the lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. Do you have research or stories about Asheville
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Tuesday, July 07, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

New Research Reveals New Information:

Asheville’s First Public Schools For Blacks For more than a year, I have collected every newspaper article on the Beaumont Academy, Beaumont School and the Mountain Street School, in my quest to gather information on the first public schools for blacks in Asheville. But something puzzled me – where was the original location of the
Asheville School CommitteeBeaumont AcademyBeaumont SchoolBlack AshevilleBlack EducationBlack Elementary EducationBlack HistoryBlack SchoolsMountain Street School
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Friday, March 13, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Education, Local History

A Most Exceptional Man: The Conclusion of the Edward S. Stephens Story

The first two posts in this series traced Edward Stephens’s career from St. Louis to Asheville to Topeka.  We saw him succeed as well as fail as he tried to lift up his race with his work in schools and black YMCAs.  This new post brings the story to a conclusion by looking at how
African American HistoryAfrican American SchoolsAfrican AmericansBlack EducationBlack SchoolsBlack TeachersBooker T. WashingtonBridgeport ConnecticutEdward S. StephensIzie Reddick StephensKansas Technical InstituteSegregationStephens-Lee Alumni AssociationStephens-Lee High SchoolTopekaTopeka Industrial Institute
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Thursday, March 05, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History

A Most Exceptional Man: The Edward S. Stephens Story (Part Two)

In Part One we focused on Stephens’s work as a principal and teacher in the Asheville City Schools and as the organizer and first general secretary of the Young Men’s Institute (YMI).  In this new post, we’ll look at the events that led to Stephens’s departure from Asheville and the work he and his wife
African American EducationAsheville Free KindergartenAsheville School CommitteeBlack EducationBlack TeachersCatholic Hill SchoolCharles McNameeEdward S. StephensIndustrial and Educational Institute of TopeksInstitute for Colored YouthIzie RiddickKansasStephens-Lee High SchoolTopekaTopeka Industrial InstituteW. W. WestYMI
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

A Most Exceptional Man: Edward S. Stephens (Part One)

This post begins the two-part story of Edward Stephens and his work in Asheville and other cities.  Although Stephens wasn’t one of the original five black teachers when the Asheville public schools opened in January 1888, he came to the system two years later and made lasting contributions to the black community as a teacher,
African American SchoolsAsheviile School CommitteeBeaumont SchoolBlack Elementary EducationBlack SchoolsBlack TeachersCatholic Hill SchoolEdward S. StephensMountain Street SchoolMt. Zion Missionary Baptist ChurchSegregated SchoolsStephens-Lee High SchoolYMI
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

Asheville’s First City Schools for Black Students, Part five: Builders of Black Schools (concluded)

This installment offers a look at the life and career of the fifth of the five original teachers at Asheville’s first black city school, Beaumont Street. We’ve saved one of the best teachers for last. We’ve also included information on the members of her family because of their prominence in Asheville and their connections to
African American EducationAmanda WalkerBeaumont SchoolBeaumont Street SchoolHester Walker Ford LeeJohn Wakefield WalkerSegregationWillie DodsonWillie Holt
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Saturday, January 04, 2020 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Houses, Local History

Confronting the Legacy of N.W. Woodfin: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

The Woodfin community, like many other Buncombe County communities is named for a man who enslaved human beings. If you’ve followed along in this series, you’ve probably recognized that to be a common theme among communities; they’re named for people of extravagant wealth. Wealth earned on the backs of enslaved black people. Indeed, our county
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAfrican AmericansAppalachiaBuncombe CountyBuncombe County HistoryCivil WarCommunity HistoryEducationenslaved peopleEnslavementlaborlawyersLocal HistoryNicholas WoodfinRailroadsSlaverySlavery in Buncombe CountyWoodfin
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Saturday, December 28, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Asheville History, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Houses, Local History, Photograph Collection

A “Worst” Asheville Album: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

I remember “worst” Asheville. It’s the neighborhood where my Grandfather was born in a house with dirt floors, where I went to preschool (back when Crossroads Assembly was “West Asheville Assembly” located on Haywood Rd.), attended my first dance lessons (in the building where Asheville Greenworks is today), and went along with my mother to
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAppalachiabefore and afterCrossroads AssemblyEatieriesGentrificationHaywood RoadRestaurantsService StationStandard Pizza Co.Sunny Point CafeUniversal JointUrban AppalachiaWest AshevilleWest End BakeryWorst Asheville
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