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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
Black EducationBlack History MonthDesegregationElynora M. FosterHood HuggersIntegrationMadison C. LennonMiss Gladys I. Pierce ForneyStephens-Lee High School
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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
African American HistoryAsheville HistoryAsheville Race RelationsBlack History MonthBuncombe County HistoryCommunityDate My CityHood HuggersRacismSegregated CitiesUrban NewsUrban Renewal
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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
Andrea ClarkAshevilleBennie Scott DavisBlack History Monthisaac DicksonRuth Bomar and Benjamin ScottRuuth jackson CannonShirley Cannon SingletonThe Untils

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