Junaluska is one of the oldest African American communities in
western North Carolina and one of the few that has persisted into
the modern era. After Emancipation, many former slaves in Watauga
County became sharecroppers, were allowed to clear land and to keep
a portion, or bought property outright, all in the segregated
neighborhood on the hill overlooking the town of Boone, North
Carolina. Land and home ownership have been crucial to the survival
of this community, whose residents are closely interconnected as
extended families and neighbors. Missionized by white Krimmer
Mennonites in the early twentieth century, their church is one of a
handful of African American Mennonite Brethren churches in the
United States, and it provides one of the few avenues for
leadership in the local black community. Susan Keefe has worked
closely with members of the community in editing this book, which
is based on three decades of participatory research. These life
history narratives adapted from interviews with residents (born
between 1885 and 1993) offer a people's history of the black
experience in the southern mountains. Their stories provide a
unique glimpse into the lives of African Americans in Appalachia
during the 20th century--and a community determined to survive
through the next.
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