Narcissus Evans interview recording, 1993 July 28

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Rhonda Mawhood	—asking Mrs. Evans, are you from New Bern?	0:00
Narcissus D. Evans	No. Henderson, North Carolina.	0:05
Rhonda Mawhood	And so you grew up in Henderson?	0:10
Narcissus D. Evans	I grew up, attended H.I. in Henderson. Well, of course at the time that I went to H.I., it was a Normal school, two years Normal.	0:12
Rhonda Mawhood	Was the Henderson Institute—	0:28
Narcissus D. Evans	—of North Carolina. When I finished high school I came to Shaw. I graduated from Shaw in what was it, '34, like I said. Then I began working after that, teaching. Where do I go from here?	0:29
Rhonda Mawhood	Well, maybe I could back up a little bit and ask you a little bit about your parents?	1:07
Narcissus D. Evans	My parents.	1:13
Rhonda Mawhood	Your parents, were they also from Henderson?	1:14
Narcissus D. Evans	My mother was from Franklinton and my father was from Lewisberg.	1:19
Rhonda Mawhood	What were your parents' names, ma'am?	1:30
Narcissus D. Evans	My mother was named Amanda Moss, M-O-S-S. Well, it was Davis-Moss, M-O-S-S. And my father was named Sherman, S-H-E-R-M-A-N Davis. There were 10 in the family.	1:33
Rhonda Mawhood	In your family, so you had nine brothers and sisters?	2:02
Narcissus D. Evans	Mm-hmm.	2:04
Rhonda Mawhood	Oh my, where were you in the order there?	2:04
Narcissus D. Evans	Oh, I was one of the younger ones. There were two younger than I am.	2:08
Rhonda Mawhood	When you were growing up, were all your brothers and sisters in the home or had some left?	2:21
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes. Most of them were in the home. There was one married at that time. My oldest sister was married who lived in Raleigh.	2:24
Rhonda Mawhood	What kind of work did your parents do, Mrs. Evans?	2:36
Narcissus D. Evans	Hmm?	2:39
Rhonda Mawhood	What work did your parents do?	2:39
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, my mother was a housemaker and my father worked around tobacco warehouses.	2:40
Rhonda Mawhood	Was he packing the tobacco or what was he doing in the warehouse?	2:53
Narcissus D. Evans	What would I say? Oh, just he—Mostly in the warehouse, what do you mostly do? I guess, look after different things. I don't know about any of the packing that well.	3:00
Rhonda Mawhood	Where you grew up, Mrs. Evans, was it in the town or more in the country?	3:14
Narcissus D. Evans	It was in town.	3:19
Rhonda Mawhood	What sorts of things do you remember about the neighborhood where you grew up, ma'am?	3:21
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, the people were close, very friendly. Each family attempted to not only look after his or her household but the neighbors also, and it was a very neighborly neighborhood.	3:26
Rhonda Mawhood	Were there people who you looked up to in particular, when you were growing up?	3:47
Narcissus D. Evans	Say what?	3:54
Rhonda Mawhood	Were there older people to whom you looked up?	3:55
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes, we did. We looked up and most all the older people, and some of them were teachers and church members. We belonged to the, well, it was the First Baptist Church. The name changed to Shiloh Baptist Church in Henderson.	4:01
Rhonda Mawhood	What—	4:32
Narcissus D. Evans	Most of the ministers came from Shaw University.	4:33
Rhonda Mawhood	Did you travel to Raleigh much when you were growing up?	4:38
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes, I did. In fact, I stayed with my sister at that time. It was a little too expensive for me to stay in the dormitory, so I stayed with the older sister when I came to Shaw.	4:42
Rhonda Mawhood	I know you became a teacher but what in particular did you study while you were at Shaw, ma'am?	5:02
Narcissus D. Evans	Say what?	5:06
Rhonda Mawhood	What in particular did you study when you were at Shaw? I know you became a teacher.	5:07
Narcissus D. Evans	English, history.	5:11
Rhonda Mawhood	Did you join a sorority when you were at Shaw, ma'am?	5:18
Narcissus D. Evans	No, that was the first year. We didn't have a sorority and they had asked different students to return during the summer. Unfortunately, I was unable to return that summer.	5:21
Rhonda Mawhood	Were you working during the summer, ma'am?	5:42
Narcissus D. Evans	No, but I had a mother who was ill. For that reason, I wasn't able to go back in the summer.	5:44
Rhonda Mawhood	What was it that made you decide to go to Shaw University?	6:02
Narcissus D. Evans	Good question. Well, I guess I had met quite a few ministers from Shaw. And all the people from Shaw went—Being nearby, I tried to get close to home.	6:08
Rhonda Mawhood	Were you able to return home for holidays while you were at Shaw?	6:31
Narcissus D. Evans	Oh, yeah. It was just a distance, I guess, forty one mile.	6:33
Rhonda Mawhood	Did your sister have children, the sister who you lived with?	6:42
Narcissus D. Evans	No, she didn't have any.	6:44
Rhonda Mawhood	Where was your first job once you graduated, ma'am?	6:51
Narcissus D. Evans	Oh, my first job was in Tyrell County.	6:56
Rhonda Mawhood	Was it a country school?	7:09
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes it was, very much so, but I was only there one year. Then I worked in Greene County, that was my husband's home.	7:11
Rhonda Mawhood	I see. Were you married yet when you moved to Greene County?	7:31
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes, so I worked there.	7:38
Rhonda Mawhood	What was it like working in the country schools?	7:39
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I enjoyed it. In fact, my first job was principal of a five-teacher school. I wouldn't guess you remember when they had—	7:47
Rhonda Mawhood	I've read a lot about it.	8:00
Narcissus D. Evans	I had a two, three, four, five teacher school and I did serve as principal of one of the schools there. When I started there were five teachers.	8:00
Rhonda Mawhood	That was your first job as principal. My goodness. How did that come to be that—	8:20
Narcissus D. Evans	I don't know but I seem to have done a very good job at it.	8:26
Rhonda Mawhood	How did you find that job? How were you recommended for that job?	8:36
Narcissus D. Evans	How would I recommend it?	8:37
Rhonda Mawhood	Mm-hmm. How was it that you found that job?	8:44
Narcissus D. Evans	Maybe two members who knew my husband very well.	8:49
Rhonda Mawhood	When did you get married, Mrs. Evans?	9:00
Narcissus D. Evans	In 1935.	9:02
Rhonda Mawhood	1935. May I ask how old you were when you married?	9:03
Narcissus D. Evans	I was 22.	9:11
Rhonda Mawhood	Where did you and your husband meet?	9:11
Narcissus D. Evans	At school.	9:20
Rhonda Mawhood	He was a teacher as well, Mr. Evans?	9:25
Narcissus D. Evans	He graduated from A&T.	9:27
Rhonda Mawhood	Was that common for teachers to meet in that way and—	9:32
Narcissus D. Evans	Yeah.	9:37
Rhonda Mawhood	—get married? Do you remember any of your students in particular, are there some who stick out in your mind for whatever reason?	9:37
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I have so many. I had so many. I've worked in the New Bern school system also, and I have quite a few who even would come around and visit me now.	9:49
Rhonda Mawhood	So you made an impression on them.	10:06
Narcissus D. Evans	Yeah. I remember quite a few of the grades when I first started working, I was working in grades fifth and sixth grade. Then when we moved to New Bern I got a job in the New Bern system, so that was like my streak.	10:07
Rhonda Mawhood	The streak. I asked you why you went to Shaw, but I didn't ask you why you wanted to become a teacher in the first place.	10:43
Narcissus D. Evans	It seems as though that was, I guess, one of the only things that you could become. Generally that would be the first thing you think of, becoming a teacher.	10:59
Rhonda Mawhood	Did many of your friends from school also become teachers?	11:15
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes, they did.	11:18
Rhonda Mawhood	Did other members of your family become teachers?	11:23
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes. I have a younger sister who teaches at Henderson, or taught rather because she resigned. Taught and then retired. Taught in Henderson, North Carolina. She is four years younger than I am and she has retired.	11:26
Rhonda Mawhood	Do you remember, Mrs. Evans, when the Brown versus Board of Education decision was given by the Supreme Court in 1954?	11:57
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes.	12:08
Rhonda Mawhood	Do you remember what you thought of that decision when it was pronounced?	12:09
Narcissus D. Evans	As to what then?	12:16
Rhonda Mawhood	Well, as to when the Supreme Court decided in 1954, that separate schools for Black and White children were illegal in the United States. Do you remember what you thought of that decision when it was pronounced?	12:16
Narcissus D. Evans	When they had separate schools?	12:35
Rhonda Mawhood	Yes, ma'am.	12:37
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, in a way I thought it was unfair. At the same time, I wonder if each group would receive the same type of training? Of course, I stopped working. I mean, I never worked in an integrated school.	12:41
Rhonda Mawhood	You were concerned that if students were put together in school they would not be treated the same?	13:13
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes.	13:20
Rhonda Mawhood	What kinds of things besides the academic things that you taught students, what other things did you try to teach them?	13:26
Narcissus D. Evans	I tried to teach them dignity, sense of appreciation. Always tried to do the best at whatever they did, no matter how great or how small it was.	13:37
Rhonda Mawhood	Do you think that these are lessons that other teachers try to teach the children as well?	13:59
Narcissus D. Evans	What, now?	14:06
Rhonda Mawhood	Well, then and now.	14:06
Narcissus D. Evans	I think back then we did more teaching that respect, family life, home life. I think all those things they headed up.	14:11
Rhonda Mawhood	Were the parents of the students involved in their education while you were teaching, ma'am?	14:30
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes they were, very much so.	14:38
Rhonda Mawhood	In what kinds of ways?	14:41
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, we usually could get the cooperation of parents at that time. If we had any discipline in our class, we could always call on them. Only a few instances did we have to take and make a drastic step to get control of the students at that time. I only had one run-in at that time but on the whole, all of the students were very respectable.	14:43
Rhonda Mawhood	I know you said you only had one. Could you tell me a little bit about the run-in that you did have, what the circumstances were?	15:24
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, it was a matter of a student maybe who had been spoiled in the home and hadn't been taught to respect the teacher. Well of course, he felt that whatever he did, he could go and tell his mother, something like that.	15:31
Rhonda Mawhood	How did you handle that situation, ma'am?	16:01
Narcissus D. Evans	Very well. As the mother came and we had a nice talk, and at the end she was glad that she had been called in.	16:08
Rhonda Mawhood	Did you go to visit the homes of students ever?	16:22
Narcissus D. Evans	On two occasions we were required in New Bern to visit. I was working over at old Duffyfield school and we visited the homes over there.	16:28
Rhonda Mawhood	What was the purpose of these visits would you say, ma'am?	16:54
Narcissus D. Evans	It seems as it was to get acquainted with the parents, and bring on a better understanding with the parents and their teachers. Some we find very favoring, others disapprove of it.	16:59
Rhonda Mawhood	Do you remember conflicts among teachers in the schools? Anything over students or the curriculum or anything like that?	17:30
Narcissus D. Evans	No, I didn't recall.	17:41
Rhonda Mawhood	Okay. I asked you if you're a member of a sorority and you said, "No." But were you a member of any other organizations while you were teaching, ma'am?	17:42
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, student council. And some of the other clubs like the Newspaper Club.	18:01
Rhonda Mawhood	It sounds like you were involved in students' activities. What kinds of issues were the student council concerned with? They may have changed over time, I don't know but—?	18:16
Narcissus D. Evans	Trying to bring about relationship in the school. And to see if they could get different students to talk out, to speak out on different subjects. To have a feeling of belonging and able to express him or herself.	18:31
Rhonda Mawhood	Do you feel that the activity in student council, prepared students for public life later on? Was that in—	19:01
Narcissus D. Evans	In some cases I think so.	19:13
Rhonda Mawhood	But in others?	19:17
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I'm speaking of it, some of the schools that I have worked in and have seen.	19:18
Rhonda Mawhood	You felt that some schools did a better job, shall we say or I'm not sure.	19:28
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, maybe they had different students were more forth going. I should say, or maybe they spoke out or they were up on certain questions and answered more than others.	19:34
Rhonda Mawhood	What kinds of issues would they speak out on, ma'am?	19:56
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, freedom of speech and equal rights.	20:01
Rhonda Mawhood	Was there any communication that you know, where there relationships between the Black high schools or elementary schools and the White high schools or elementary schools? Did the children have communication for Black or White children?	20:25
Narcissus D. Evans	I never worked in the school after it was integrated. It would be only what I heard but I never worked. Due to illness, I stopped work. I gave up the school life at that time, so I never had a chance to work in an integrated school.	20:38
Rhonda Mawhood	When you were teaching in the African-American schools, were the students concerned—As you said, they were concerned with equality. Were they concerned with issues affecting African-Americans in particular?	21:06
Narcissus D. Evans	When then?	21:25
Rhonda Mawhood	Before, when you were teaching, before the schools were desegregated.	21:28
Narcissus D. Evans	Not so much, I don't think.	21:34
Rhonda Mawhood	They would talk about equality in general?	21:38
Narcissus D. Evans	In general terms.	21:40
Rhonda Mawhood	Are you active in a church, ma'am?	21:47
Narcissus D. Evans	I was, up until last year. I belonged to the First Missionary Baptist Church. I have served as secretary treasurer and a pastor aide. I've attended Sunday school, not now but on one occasion and I assisted as treasurer at the church. I belong to the Women Federation Club, the Climbers' Club, a member of that.	21:52
Rhonda Mawhood	Could you tell me a little bit about the Climbers' Club, ma'am? I'm not familiar with that one.	22:58
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes. It's a club that's pertaining to women. There are three that we have, three divisions, Home And Garden Club, Arts And Craft Club. That's one piece up here.	23:03
Rhonda Mawhood	You made that yourself?	23:22
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes, I did.	23:23
Rhonda Mawhood	Oh, I see.	23:24
Narcissus D. Evans	That's another piece and that's another piece. That's from the Arts and Craft.	23:24
Rhonda Mawhood	Oh my goodness. The macrame one, that's beautiful and of course, and lovely.	23:31
Narcissus D. Evans	Home and Garden, I'm also a member of that division. We just had our district meeting in New Bern, Saturday. I think our district meeting's on Saturday.	23:36
Rhonda Mawhood	There's the Gome and Garden division, the Craft division and which one?	23:56
Narcissus D. Evans	Home and Garden Club and also the Book Club. You should include that. Make sure I have it straight. Home And Garden Club, Arts and Craft and Book Club. They're a division under the Climbers' Club. Maybe if you read that, we can understand that more. That meeting was held here Saturday. I didn't attend.	24:01
Rhonda Mawhood	Thank you. So it's women from different churches who belong to this club.	24:33
Narcissus D. Evans	Oh yeah. Different churches from around.	24:42
Rhonda Mawhood	What kinds of qualifications for membership should a woman have?	24:46
Narcissus D. Evans	For what?	24:51
Rhonda Mawhood	For membership in the Climbers' Club, what kind of a woman do you look for as a member?	24:53
Narcissus D. Evans	Not any special education, as long as she is a good homemaker and likes to do things to help others. So many times we make different articles and give them or send them to different, normal people. Some of the members are very good at making quilts. Then we have those who do the artwork such as macrame, crocheting. We have some who crochet who make different articles during the holidays and will give them to some of those in need. So, such things as that.	25:02
Narcissus D. Evans	We have little social hours during the year. The Home And Garden Club for some years has had an egg hunt, for some of those who would not be able to go or who does not go to church and we furnish and dye the eggs for them. We did that two or three years sometime ago under the head of the social service. Of course, the Book Club user planned that program around certain books and gave reports. We have quite a few activities and each division tried to help the other group and that was something that came.	25:58
Rhonda Mawhood	What kinds of books does the Book Club read?	27:01
Narcissus D. Evans	Hmm?	27:06
Rhonda Mawhood	What kinds of books does the Book Club read?	27:06
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I'm not a member of the Book Club, but they have a different type of book or, I mean, it's not limited to any one class of book but different. They give reports on a different one. I think it's up to each member as to what type of book she would read and report on it.	27:08
Rhonda Mawhood	Must a woman be married to be a member of the club?	27:34
Narcissus D. Evans	Say what?	27:36
Rhonda Mawhood	Must a woman be married to be a member?	27:37
Narcissus D. Evans	Oh, no indeed, no.	27:40
Rhonda Mawhood	How long have you been a member of this club, ma'am?	27:44
Narcissus D. Evans	I've been a member for 25 years.	27:47
Rhonda Mawhood	Do you know how the club got its name?	27:54
Narcissus D. Evans	Oh Lord, that's a long story. Oh, Mrs. Charlotte Road—oh, Mrs—I think. The club is located on West Street. Now, would you be able to check some of this with Mary White?	28:00
Rhonda Mawhood	Yes, certainly.	28:26
Narcissus D. Evans	Yeah? Well they have a meeting. She has a group and they meet. Their clubhouse is on West Street. Now, we have material in the building and the first offices are that they had for this club. I'm sure if you would see her, she would be glad to give you a tour of that building. Right now I have some material on them but I would want it to be exact.	28:28
Rhonda Mawhood	Certainly.	29:08
Narcissus D. Evans	We have all the presidents of the Climbers' Club pictures on the wall, and we have all the different members and the different groups on the wall.	29:08
Rhonda Mawhood	It sounds like it's been in existence for quite a while.	29:25
Narcissus D. Evans	It's been in existence a long time. If you would give me that plaque on the wall?	29:38
Rhonda Mawhood	Yes.	29:39
Narcissus D. Evans	Maybe, yes.	29:39
Rhonda Mawhood	Of this?	29:39
Narcissus D. Evans	Uh-huh.	29:39
Rhonda Mawhood	Yes, ma'am.	29:39
Narcissus D. Evans	I'm distracting from this but to show you some of what my—Me, since you got all of that stuff. We had these pictures made recently the Climbers' Club members. Now, all could not be present at the same time, so the photographer took them at a different times and that was one group and this was another group. Maybe you can locate me on there.	29:39
Rhonda Mawhood	Very nice. Where? Oh no.	30:23
Narcissus D. Evans	I'm on that one.	30:33
Rhonda Mawhood	Oh, yes, here you are.	30:33
Narcissus D. Evans	Then we had three or four other people who didn't get on either one of these and they have those. These were made up in the spring and these are some of the members. Now we have large pictures hanging in the library of the group.	30:38
Rhonda Mawhood	Very lovely pictures. Everyone looks happy. Everyone's smiling. It's very nice. Thank you.	31:00
Narcissus D. Evans	I think you can get a good idea. The three divisions of the club were able, three years ago, to renovate the building and I don't make much work in it.	31:07
Rhonda Mawhood	Are you a member of the NAACP, Mrs. Evans?	31:30
Narcissus D. Evans	The what?	31:33
Rhonda Mawhood	Are you a member of the NAACP?	31:34
Narcissus D. Evans	No, I am not.	31:35
Rhonda Mawhood	Have you been a member?	31:39
Narcissus D. Evans	No, my husband has been a member.	31:39
Rhonda Mawhood	That's just one of the organizations that people sometimes forget to mention. That's why I would like to ask about it.	31:48
Narcissus D. Evans	Now, how much more?	31:54
Rhonda Mawhood	I'm sorry?	32:04
Narcissus D. Evans	Do you have much more to—	32:05
Rhonda Mawhood	Was there— [INTERRUPTION]	32:07
Narcissus D. Evans	It was necessary for me to ride buses, I guess between '40 and '50 from New Bern to Henderson, North Carolina. My mother was of age and very sick and I often traveled from New Bern to Henderson to help the other sister. Of course, her condition wasn't very favorable at all.	32:11
Narcissus D. Evans	Most of time I would stay and work or help her until I was tired. Then when I would get on the bus, I would maybe have to sit on a suitcase or stand and hold the railing, although there may be a seat nearby that I could have taken. On one or two occasions, I attempted to occupy a seat.	32:47
Narcissus D. Evans	So, nothing was said but the person who was sitting next just got up and moved. I did go through that a lot because I rode the bus quite often. That was one of the things that I remember quite vivid because it went over a period of I guess by 10 years, maybe 1940 to 1950.	33:20
Rhonda Mawhood	Sometimes you would stand but sometimes you would sit in a seat beside a White person.	33:56
Narcissus D. Evans	Very seldom.	34:04
Rhonda Mawhood	Very seldom.	34:04
Narcissus D. Evans	If one would get up and give it to me that would sound very nice. On other occasions maybe I was tired and feeling vague and I would just have to hold a rail and stand. Whereas there would be a seat here, a seat up there up in the front.	34:04
Rhonda Mawhood	Sometimes a White person would stand up and give you a seat. Would this be a White man?	34:27
Narcissus D. Evans	Say what?	34:34
Rhonda Mawhood	Would this be a White man or White—	34:35
Narcissus D. Evans	Yes.	34:37
Rhonda Mawhood	How did you feel about that when that happened, ma'am?	34:42
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I thought he was the one. One of a kind. He was different. And I felt that all are not the same.	34:46
Rhonda Mawhood	On those occasions when you did choose to sit when you chose to take a seat, what made you decide to take that seat on that particular day or evening?	35:03
Narcissus D. Evans	I wasn't feeling so good. Maybe I felt weak and having left sick relatives. I usually to worked until I left because there was just two of us who were helping. I would probably feel sick sometime and just had to sit. Of course if I said I was feeling bad. Or the driver just said, "All right." Sometimes there were some drivers who were very nice.	35:16
Rhonda Mawhood	Other times there were drivers who were not so?	36:01
Narcissus D. Evans	No.	36:09
Rhonda Mawhood	Were there unpleasant events, conflicts with drivers?	36:09
Narcissus D. Evans	I never ran into that. I never did because I guess I only wanted just to sit.	36:13
Rhonda Mawhood	Did any of your friends have unpleasant conflicts such as—	36:28
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I don't know if they know riding in the bus or if ever they had to go a distance. My husband was kind of agent, and being a kind of agent, I didn't feel that I could draw him away from his work. Every time I got to go to see my mother, maybe stay a week or two so I would ride the bus.	36:38
Rhonda Mawhood	Did you ever know of any stories, ma'am? If you don't want to answer this I'll understand it completely, but did you ever hear of any stories of people passing into White society?	37:09
Narcissus D. Evans	Pardon, what?	37:24
Rhonda Mawhood	Of African-American people passing for White at times?	37:26
Narcissus D. Evans	No.	37:30
Rhonda Mawhood	You didn't know?	37:31
Narcissus D. Evans	Mm-hmm.	37:33
Rhonda Mawhood	In your experience, how were relations between police in New Bern and the African-American community?	37:41
Narcissus D. Evans	How what?	37:53
Rhonda Mawhood	The relations between police in New Bern and African-Americans, how were those relations?	37:53
Narcissus D. Evans	I don't know that I ever—Y'all getting ready to go? [INTERRUPTION] I never encountered any of that. I don't know. I don't know of any personally.	38:05
Rhonda Mawhood	But you knew about other people?	38:24
Narcissus D. Evans	Hmm?	38:28
Rhonda Mawhood	You knew about other people having problems or—	38:28
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, that's what you hear, or maybe the newspaper.	38:34
Rhonda Mawhood	Mrs. Evans, before I go, I'd like to ask you if there's any advice that you would give to young people today? Young people coming up today, giving them the benefit of your experience?	38:44
Narcissus D. Evans	Well, I guess the first thing I would try to advise them to stay away from drugs. And not to be influenced by others who are on drugs and if possible, to see if they cannot be of some help. If they know anyone going that way, and try to help those in some way, be an example for those who may be doing some of those things they shouldn't do such as drugs and guns.	39:01
Rhonda Mawhood	Well, thank you very much, ma'am. Appreciate it.	39:52

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Narcissus Evans interview recording, 1993 July 28

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July 28, 1993

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Evans, Narcissus D.

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Mawhood, Rhonda Lyn

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Name: Narcissus D. Evans; Date of birth: 1911-01-17; Place of birth: Henderson, NC; Occupation(s): educator; Residence: New Bern, NC
Informant ID: 212; Interviewed by: Rhonda Mawhood.

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Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South interviews, photographs, and project records, circa 1864-2011, bulk 1990-1999

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Narcissus Evans interview recording, 1993 July 28

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1. Narcissus Evans administrative file, 1993

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