Tuesday, February 20, 2018 / Published in African Americans, Exhibits, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History

The Faculty of Stephens-Lee High School: A Tribute

Stephens-Lee High School, known of as “The Castle on the Hill,” was designed by Asheville architect Ronald Greene at a cost of $115,000 and opened on March 7, 1923. It was designed for a capacity of 900 students and it opened with 856. It was the only public high school for blacks in Asheville. Some
Sunday, January 21, 2018 / Published in African Americans, Local History, Photograph Collection

How Black and White is Asheville?

Do you prefer to live in a segregated city? What could you do to change that? Would you seek out some people of the opposite race to go to dinner with–an idea, I believe, from Date My City? If enough of us did that, would it change what is happening in our city? If we
Friday, February 12, 2016 / Published in African Americans, Exhibits, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Photograph Collection

Black History Month

ON DISPLAY NOW:  Black History Month. The North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library is exhibiting four special exhibits for the month of February. ASHEVILLE’S EAST END, 1970:  Photographs from the Andrea Clark Collection.  (Main level library exhibit area) Andrea’s powerful photographs show the story of a community and its collision with urban renewal. *** The