Lucy Cherry Crisp Oral History Interview
March 26, 1973
Oral History #OH0013- Creator(s)
- Lennon, Donald R.; Crisp, Lucy Cherry, 1899-1977
- Physical description
- 0.015 Cubic Feet, 3 audiocasette, 3 hours, no transcription
- Preferred Citation
- Lucy Cherry Crisp Oral History Interview (#OH0013), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- ECU Manuscript Collection
- Access
- No restrictions
Biographical/historical information
Lucy Cherry Crisp was a white woman from Pitt County, N.C., and had a varied career as a poet, journalist, religious counselor, and art museum administrator. Among her published works are two volumes of poetry, Brief Testament and Spring Fever.
Scope and arrangement
In this interview, Lucy Cherry Crisp reads the dialectal verse which makes up Spring Fever. The poems are written in what Ms. Crisp perceives as African American Vernacular English, or is formerly known as "Black English" and are meant to reflect life in the Black community in Falkland, Pitt County N.C. during the early twentieth century. For related material see Collection #154.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift of Lucy Cherry Crisp
Processing information
Encoded by Apex Data Services Updated by Jo Overstreet, December 2021 Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, May 2023
Copyright notice
Repository does not own copyright to the oral history collection. Permission to cite, reproduce, or broadcast must be obtained from both the repository and the participants in the oral history, or their heirs.
Metadata Rights Declaration
General note
1910-1935
Key terms
Personal Names
Crisp, Lucy Cherry, 1899-1977Topical
Authors, American--North CarolinaBlack English--Poetry
Dialect poetry, American--North Carolina--Falkland