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Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer in 1950. Not long after, she began travelling to Chapel Hill for treatment. She eventually moved to Chapel Hill, to be near one of her sisters, after her daughter, Georgia, married and began to start her own…

Five young women, one of whom is an African American, pictured for the Homecoming court at Tuscola High School in Waynesville.

Newspaper article in Waynesville Mountaineer about Nat the Cat

Nat Lowery and Family taken at family reunion

This will get me an A+

Western Carolina University accepted the school’s first African American student in 1957. Levern Hamlin was the first black student to be admitted and enrolled in a predominantly white state-supported college in North Carolina, according to…

Charlsie is the female assistant pastor in the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Andrews, in Cherokee County.

River baptism