Lyons, Lillian Taylor, 1902-

Authoritative Name:

Lyons, Lillian Taylor, 1902-

Biography:

Lillian Taylor Lyons was born and raised in Oxford, North Carolina, in the early twentieth century. Her father was born enslaved in 1850 and accompanied his master with the Confederate army during the Civil war, while her mother was born just on the cusp of the Civil War and, according to Lyons, was not enslaved. Lyons and her siblings all went to the Mary Potter school in Oxford. Following her own graduation in 1919, Lyons attended college and became a school teacher.--From Oral Histories of the American South biography.

Associated Subjects:

Lyons, Lillian Taylor, 1902-

Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

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Oral history interview with Lillian Taylor Lyons, September 11, 1994

Creator:

Lyons, Lillian Taylor, b. 1902

Date of Original:

1994-09-11

Collection:

Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement

Contributing Institution:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)