Kelly Elaine Navies: A Legacy of an Oral Historian Sharing Her Story

Published: March 25, 2021, 10 a.m.

Yvette talks with Kelly Elaine Navies who is a Museum Specialist Oral Historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. Kelly talks about how oral history became her passion. It began with a college assignment that resulted in her finding the legacy of her great-great-grandmother born into slavery in Asheville, North Carolina.