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Object Description
Interview no. | U-0720 |
Restrictions | Closed during interviewee's lifetime. |
Project | U.19. Long Civil Rights Movement: Breaking New Ground |
Project description | Interviews, 2011-2012, conducted for the Breaking New Ground: A History of American Farm Owners Since the Civil War project. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was coordinated by Adrienne Petty (of the City College of New York) and Mark Schultz (of Lewis University in Illinois) with assistance from Jacquelyn Hall. Interviews were conducted by two cohorts of research fellows and centered on African American farmers', landowners', and descendants' political, social, and economic experiences in the American South from the Civil War onward. |
Date | 22 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Johnson, Willie Mae. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smalls, Stella. |
Abstract | The interview with Willie Mae Johnson was centered around the fact that she grew up in the south but like so many blacks during her era, she migrated north in the hopes of a better life. Other topics of discussion include: both of her siblings have passed away and she is left with a small amount of land; the other portion of the land has been given to her nephew (the son of her deceased sister); like many other people who have ties to land in the South, she came back to live on the land ; her family's land, as much other black owned land, is being contracted out for farming; renting the land barely pays the cost of property taxes. In addition, her family had a good relationship with white farmers. |
Citation | Interview with Willie Mae Johnson by Stella Smalls, 22 May 2011 U-0720, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | U0720_Transcript |