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Aunt Jule Snow, John Minick, Ruth Minick

Aunt Jule Snow, John Minick, Ruth Minick. Aunt Jule Snow loved babies and would only care for babies. She had one good black silk Sunday dress

Interview with "Lettie" Irene Stewart by Randle E. Brim

"Interview with Lettie Graham Stewart, age 105- born Jan. 31, 1896, interviewed by Randle E. Brim on June 16, 2001, #10"; Interviewee's name listed as 'Lettie' Irene Graham Stewart and lifelong member of Stateline Primitive Baptist Church (African American)

Stateline Primitive Baptist Church photograph

photograph of Stateline Primitive Baptist Church

Stateline Primitive Baptist Church sketch

hand drawn sketch of the Stateline Primitive Baptist Church

Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church photograph

photograph of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Elkin (N.C.)

Zion Baptist Church photograph

photograph of Zion Baptist Church

Old Hollow Primitive Baptist Church photograph

photograph of Old Hollow Primitive Baptist Church

photograph of Mallalieu Jones United Methodist Church

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 121st Church anniversary program

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 121st Church anniversary program on December 1, 2019. The Right Reverend James Levert Davis, Presiding Prelate; Mother Arelis Beevers Davis, Episcopal Supervisor of Missions; Rev. Dr. Conrad K. Pridgen, Presiding Elder, Western District; Rev. Dr. Shirley W. Hines, Pastor; Rev. Anita M. Thompson, Eastern District Presiding Elder, Guest Minister

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 109th Anniversary Program

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 109th Anniversary Sunday December 2, 2007 11:00am and 3:00pm. Anniversary Theme: To God Be The Glory. Presiding Prelate - Bishop Adam J. Richardson, Presiding Elder - Rev. J. Bernard Wilder, Pastor - Reverend Phyllis T. Royal

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 107th Anniversary Program

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 107th Anniversary Program for Sunday December 4, 2005. Re. Rev. Adam J. Richardson, Presiding Bishop; Rev. Jasper Bernard Wilder, Presiding Elder; Rev. Lula Williams, Pastor; Bishop Claude Turner; Pastor of Calvary Hill Church of Greater Deliverance, Winston Salem, NC guest

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 100th Anniversary Program

St. Paul A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church 100th Anniversary Program 1898-1998. The Right Reverend Vinton R. Anderson, Presiding Bishop; The Reverend Benjamin S. Foust, Presiding Elder; The Reverend Thomas I. Burt, Pastor; The Reverend M. B. "Bonnie" Hines, Guest Minister

Booklet of recipes by Nora Ousley-Glover called A Collection of Favourite Recipies.

Booklet of recipes by Nora Ousley-Glover called A Collection of Favourite Recipies and co-authored by Emma L. Bowe. In the mid-1900s, Nora owned Nora's Cafe, formerly Nora's Place which was located on the corner of South Street and Virginia Street in the area called Needmore.

Nora Ousley Glover photograph

photograph of Nora Glover, wife of James Glover, owned Nora's Cafe (formerly Nora's Place) on the corner of South Street and Virginia Street in the area called Needmore

Catus Hill Cemetery and Other Cemeteries: A List of African-American Deaths and Burials from 1903 to 1913

Catus Hill Cemetery and Other Cemeteries: A List of African-American Deaths and Burials from 1903 to 1913 according to the records at Moody Funeral Home in Mount Airy (N.C.) Compiled by Martha Rowe Vaughn May 2004

Black History Celebration Concert is Saturday

Article on Black History Month Celebration held at House of God Church in Mount Airy, NC in 2018.

Interview with Lurenda Berry

Interview done as part of an oral history project for Surry Historical Society. Lurenda's husband Hiawatha was also present for the interview. Lurenda, who is black, was one of 15 children and grew up in Chestnut Ridge on a farm. Her father raised cows and hogs, grew tobacco, and had an orchard on their property. Berry recalls helping out on the farm growing up, including missing school when her and her siblings were needed to work the farm. Her family attended Chestnut Ridge church which held large church picnics. Her paternal grandfather was enslaved and received land following the end of the Civil War which was passed down through the family. Met her husband at a baseball game. He played first base for a team out of Westfield. Her mother died when she was 16 and Lurenda helped to raise her younger siblings after that, including several coming to live with her and her husband after they were married. Interview is in three parts.

Interview with Hiawatha Berry

Interview done as part of an oral history project for Surry Historical Society. Interview done in his kitchen and his wife (Lurenda) is also in the room. Berry is a black man and he grew up in Winston-Salem and moved to Surry County to help out on his uncle's tobacco farm after his mother's death in 1933. Discusses how a hog killing worked and what cuts would be got from it as well as hunting wild game to supplement their food. Family attended Locust Grove Church. Discusses how white children in the community had school buses to get to school but the black children did not, which resulted in many black children not being able to make it to school. Interview is in two parts.

photographs of Exodus Primitive Progressive Baptist Church

photographs of Exodus Progressive Primitive Baptist Church in Pilot Mountain, NC

photograph of students at Stony Ridge School

photograph of students at Stony Ridge School in the Shoals Community in the 1930s

Black Schools in Surry County 1920-1966

Historical analysis of African American schools in Surry County, NC from 1920-1966

Interview with Monroe Dodd

Interview with Monroe Dodd conducted by Robert Merritt on February 16, 1996. Interview discusses Dodd's life. He was born in Pilot Mountain and then moved to Mount Airy after his father's death in 1919 from the Spanish flu. He was one of eight children (four boys and four girls). Focus is on the experience of African-Americans in Mount Airy in the first half of the 20th century, including experiencing segregation at public facilities and restaurants in town. Dodd served in the army during World War II, travelling to several bases in the US (Fort Bragg, Fort Lee in VA, CA and NJ) and then went to Europe (Scotland, Belgium, Germany). He also discusses segregation in the military and how it was different in Europe versus the United States. Black cemetaries in Mount Airy are also discussed near the end of the interview. Audio is in two parts.

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