The African Americans in Jackson County: A Pictorial History from Slavery to Integration

With re-search spanning more than hundred years¿from 1865 to 1967, this book is the first ever written record of the African Americans in Jackson County, NC. Victoria has completed a text to accompany the photographs gathered from her research. The photographs shared with you here were not taken by Victoria, but by amateur African Americans and/or white professional photographers. She chose these pictures to present the history of black Jackson County through the years of segregation.