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Black Heritage in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina

Knox Cassette 2 Side 2

Media

Part of Interview: Knox, Brenda

Title

Knox Cassette 2 Side 2

Source

Brenda Knox Interview

Date

1990-09-24

Description

Cassette 2

Side 2

00:04--She continues to recall her father's work with white colleagues and their cooperation as well as aspects of her Uncle B.C. Sharp's pharmacy practice in Seneca.

3:00--Relationships between white men and black women, black marriage relationships, racial mixing with Native Americans, and people who passed for white are discussed.

11:35--She discusses aspects of local travel by train, her father's affiliation with the State Medical Association, and her parent's travel with close family friends Dr. Harold Hill and his wife Eugenia to such places as the 1939 World's Fair.

18:49--Mrs. Knox discusses celebrations such as Christmas, July 4th, cakewalks, dances, Sunday dinners, and birthdays before commenting on what she perceives as mostly positive black/white relations in Seneca and its small town sense of community.

31:24---Audio ends.

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