The History Of Aid For African-Americans In WNC

The 5th annual African-Americans in WNC and Southern Appalachia Conference was held at the end of October on the campus of UNC Asheville. The theme of this year's conference was 'Making The Invisible Visible'. Four students gave presentations at the conference on research projects they were doing for the fall semester. BPR will feature three of those students on-air during Morning Edition this week as they completed their research this month. First up is junior Flo Jacques, who researched the history of aid and educational opportunities for African-Americans in Western North Carolina. Excerpts of interview - On why she focused on Western North Carolina specifically - "Although Asheville is known as (the largest) city in Western North Carolina, there is so much more to know about. It was very interesting to find the little histories that people do not know a lot about at all. If you were not educated about this, you might think you'd never find people in the west of North Carolina