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Orlene Simmons<\/p><\/div>\n

By Lauren Stepp<\/p>\n

In 1961, a white student threatened to hang Oralene Simmons. She was 17 at the time, studying at her desk in Treat Dormitory at Mars Hill College (now Mars Hill University) when she heard voices outside her room. One boy wondered what would happen if he threw a brick through Simmons\u2019 window. Another student mentioned he had a rope. \u201cWe could hang her off that big oak tree,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Simmons remembers feeling sick to her stomach. In the countless moments of prejudice she experienced as the college\u2019s first Black student, she turned to Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cI often read his speeches and would find strength in them,\u201d says Simmons, who clung specifically to an excerpt from King\u2019s November 1956 speech at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church: \u201cLet no man pull you so low as to hate him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Oralene Simmons. Photos courtesy of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County<\/p><\/div>\n

But Simmons also thought of her great-great-grandfather, Joseph Anderson. Anderson was a slave owned by J. W. Anderson, one of the founders of Mars Hill College. In 1854, the board of trustees hired an Asheville contractor to construct the college\u2019s first building. Five years later, when the debts had yet to be paid, the Buncombe County sheriff took Anderson as collateral.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis imprisonment is the only case known where human flesh and blood went to prison for an institution,\u201d says Simmons. Though the college\u2019s trustees raised the money to free Anderson, he would have otherwise been sold to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n

Simmons first learned about her great-great-grandpa when her grandmother took her to the college for a founder\u2019s day play. As the performance unfolded, a seven-year-old Simmons watched a white student in blackface reenact the life of her ancestor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt that time, I really couldn\u2019t understand slavery\u2014one person owning another person,\u201d says Simmons. \u201cIt was an awful lot for me to take in. But that story was precious. It made me depressed. It made me angry.\u201d<\/p>\n

The story lit a fire. During her time at Stephens-Lee High School, Simmons joined the Asheville Student Committee on Racial Equality, an organization that worked to integrate movie theaters, restaurants and other public spaces in Asheville. In her senior year, Simmons decided she would make her own statement. She applied to Mars Hill College, then an all-white junior college, and waited. When a letter finally came in the mail, she had been denied admission.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a disappointment,\u201d says Simmons. \u201cBut I thought about the conditions of the South\u2014churches being bombed, buses being set on fire and the violence that had erupted at lunch counter demonstrations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simmons decided not to back down. She contacted civil rights activist William Bagwell, who took the rejection letter to the board of trustees. After an emergency meeting, she was allowed to register for classes.<\/p>\n

Today, 60 years later, Simmons is president of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County and the founder of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Prayer Breakfast, which has been held each January since 1982. But more than that, Simmons is a changemaker who left an indelible mark on Mars Hill College and the region at large.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so isolated and very alone,\u201d Simmons says of her time at the college. \u201cBut I gained self-esteem in knowing who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, visit MLKAsheville.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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