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Interview no. | U-0718 |
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 | 19 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Gooden, Larry H, 1948- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1948 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smalls, Stella. |
Abstract | Larry H. Gooden's interview was done to show the differences between land owning blacks and blacks that did not own land. His father, Andrew Gooden, was a foreman for a large farm owned by the Faireys, which was a wealthy white farming family in Rowesville, S.C. The interview showed some of the history of growing up in the south with strong black parents, which according to Gooden made quite a difference in ones existence. The interview also brought forth a murder that took place when Gooden was a child. His interview was a history lesson of sorts, which will take the listeners back to a time and place that is usually read about in books. Furthermore, it shows how working for black farmers could be as difficult as working for white farmers. |
Citation | Interview with Larry H. Gooden by Stella Smalls, 19 June 2011 U-0718, 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. | U0718_Audio |