THE INTEGRATION of Black Mountain College
written by Anne Chesky Smith, Special To The Black Mountain News
Excerpt from the article:
In the early- to mid-1900s, the Swannanoa Valley, like most places in the South, was segregated. African Americans could not attend Black Mountain’s movie theatre or eat inside restaurants.
Local legend has it that one of the first integrated spaces in the Valley was Roseland Gardens, an African American juke joint run by Horace Rutherford in the Brookside community – now the Flat Creek Road area.
Read the full story at blackmountainnews.com.
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