Smith, Edward Clark
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Willie Proctor is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on April 2, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. He was born in Rutherford County in 1904 and moved to Polk county when he was still young. He recalls his grandmother’s stories about being sold into slavery and details the time she was freed. He raised a large family and talks about working, how he got into the building business, getting by on very little, and church. He recalls the 1916 flood. Proctor shares his experiences before and after the civil rights movement.
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Proctor, Willie, 1904
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