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Interview no. | U-0747 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
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 | 30 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Stephens, Eric M., 1962- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1962 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Eric M. Stephens was born in 1962 was raised in Mobile, Ala. Even he did not technically grow up on a farm; he remembers vividly having to go work on his grandparent's farm in Thomasville, Ala. Stephens was very open about the times on his grandparents' farm as well as other endeavors that his paternal grandfather, Ezekiel Stephens, had besides farming. This interview consisted of several points of information which is pertinent to the overall goal of the Breaking New Ground Project. All of the information collected from Stephens was relevant to the massive objective of collecting oral interviews which are intended to unearth the history of black farm owning families from as early as the twentieth century to the present. Topics of discussion included: discussing his personal and family history; describing little about how his grandparents farmland was acquired; how the hay and cattle farm worked; how important the farm was to his family; where the hay was sold; where the cattle was sold; race relations. |
Citation | Interview with Eric M. Stephens by Bridget Stephens, 30 June 2011 U-0747, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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