Interview with Lottie Young

Lottie Young is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on June 4, 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Young was born in 1886 and her father had been enslaved. She recalls growing up without clothes to go to church and no shoes. She and her siblings were educated through eighth grade and then went to work in the fields. Young describes some of the jobs they had to do such as grubbing and making molasses. Young remembers working for Ness Brothers as a cloth cutter and after her children were out of the home she raised the children of another family