Oral Histories
Several oral history projects have been conducted with residents of Esmont and former students of Esmont High School and BF Yancey Elementary School. Here we have provided links so the you can hear this story from the voices of those who lived it.
Esmont Virginia Community History Day
October 27, 2018
The BF Yancey History & Heritage team hosted a community history day in October 2018. Click here to listen to what our community members shared about attending school in Esmont.
Race & Place:
An African American Community in the Jim Crow South
In 2002, the Virginia Center for Digital Humanities and the Carter G Woodson Institute collaborated to record oral histories of Esmont residents who lived there during the Jim Crow Era.
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