Interview with Annie Mildred Lowery, 2003 September 16
Item
- Description
- Oral history interview with Annie Mildred Lowery, conducted by Davidson College Library archivist Jan Blodgett on September 16, 2003.
- In this interview Annie Mildred Lowery talks about her life in Davidson throughout the years and her deep involvement with the community. She gives valuable accounts about the beginnings of Town Day and the Community Development club, which later turned into the Piedmont Development Club. Lowery also mentions the William Werthis Club and other community members such as Reverend Pritchett and Ms. Maggie Smith. She similarly discusses many efforts to offer recreational activities for the Black youth of Davidson. After lightly going over her Torrence family tree. Lowery talks about the issue of non-integrated spaces in Davidson, and her personal experience working for fraternities on campus for over 30 years as well as raising children in the context of the 1950s and 1960s.
- Date
- 2003 September 16
- Format
- mp3
- Identifier
- OHI-0093
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Davidson College
- Subject
- Oral history
- History of Mecklenburg County
- Type
- Sound
- Text
- interviewer
- Jan Blodgett
- interviewee
- Annie Mildred Lowery
- Transcription
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Transcript of interview with Annie Mildred Lowery
- Duration
- 1:01:56 (part 1)
- 10:40 (part 2)
