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WCU Special Collections/Courtesy of Hallie Lackie Western Carolina University’s Special Collections library has digitized a new collection called Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. The collection is made up of interviews with Black residents from Western North Carolina during the late 1980s. All the subjects were over the age of 69. In 1986, Juanita Jones was interviewed by Edward Clark Smith for the project. She remembers growing up in Asheville during the Great De...

2:59 Reporter Lilly Knoepp talks about the expansion of a Western North Carolina LGBTQ+ oral history archive to Western Carolina University with Assistant Professor of English Travis Rountree and Head of Research and Instruction Services at Hunter Library Sarah Steiner. A project to document the lives of LGBTQ+ people in Western North Carolina is expanding. “I think its really important to show, to demonstrate that there is indeed a history here and has been,  for a long time,” said Rount...

WCU teams with Blue Ridge Pride Center A collaboration between Western Carolina University, the University of North Carolina Asheville and the Blue Ridge Pride Center will gather oral histories, archival materials and photos for an ongoing LGBTQ+ community research project.  The Blue Ridge Pride Center is a nonprofit founded in 2008 and estimates the region is home to some 35,000 people who identify as LGBTQ+.  Amanda Wray, project founder for the Pride Center, is an associate pro...