Browse Items (20 total)

This is a photograph of the memorial erected to Joe Anderson and unveiled on October 12, 1932.

These are notes about a deed between Joe and Mary E. Anderson and [G.G.?] Tillery dated September 26, 1904.

This is a list of the names of Joe Anderson's two wives and their children and grandchildren.

This is an account giving some details about the Joe Anderson story and which Mars Hill College founders bailed him out, as well as where he lived after his life as an enslaved person.

This article from an unidentified newspaper describes a ceremony at Mars Hill College in which Joe Anderson's ashes, which had been removed from a local cemetery, were reburied on campus with an inscribed granite marker.

This is an article written by W.D. Weatherford for The Southern Workman. It uses the Joe Anderson and Mars Hill College story as a starting point to talk about overcoming prejudice against African Americans. W.D. Weatherford presented some version of…

This article talks about the early history of Mars Hill College on the occasion of its annual Founder's Day and mentions the Joe Anderson story as an example of how poor the school was at one point.

This is an article that tells the Joe Anderson story and describes the ceremony that honored him in October, 1932 when his ashes were dug up and moved to the Mars Hill College campus and reburied with a granite marker.

This is a letter from Spencer B. King, Jr., Assistant Dean of Mars Hill College to Mr. J.E. Swain, Clerk of Superior Court, Buncombe County thanking Mr. Swain for his help in searching for evidence in the court records about Shackleford and Clayton…

This is a letter from Spencer B. King, Jr., Assistant Dean of Mars Hill College to Mr. J.E. Swain, Clerk of Superior Court, Buncombe County asking Mr. Swain to help find evidence in the court records about Shackleford and Clayton levying Joe Anderson…