| Scope and content |
Sallie Phillips Smith discusses her parents' lives as slaves and as free citizens. Particular topics of interest include the circumstances surrounding the sale of her mother from Hyde to Edgecombe County owners. Some material in the interview concerns Mrs. Smith's years as a student at Bricks School. An educator for at least forty-four years, Mrs. Smith taught in several elementary schools, including a one-teacher schoolhouse. She describes her teaching methods, problems with attendance, tuberculosis among children and its treatment, student-teacher relationships, and general reminiscences of her career. Accompanying the twenty-six page transcript is her newspaper obituary dated May 15, 1978. |
| General note | Interviewer: Lennon, Donald R. Interview date: June 12, 1973. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Sallie Phillips Smith Oral History Interview (#OH0011), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Repository does not own copyright to the oral history collection. Permission to cite, reproduce, or broadcast must be obtained from both the repository and the participants in the oral history, or their heirs. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Sallie Phillips Smith. |
| Biographical note | Sallie Amelia Phillips Smith was born in 1877 to former slave parents from Edgecombe County, North Carolina. She taught in the rural black schools of eastern North Carolina for more than forty-four years. |
