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Interview no. | U-0746 |
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 | 7 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Sanders, Jimmy, 1950- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1950 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Born April 3, 1950, Jimmy Sanders has lived all of his life in the Magnolia Community in Georgia on fifty acres of farmland purchased by his father and mother who both felt the need to have some thing of their own in life. Sanders has a vast knowledge of the ins and outs of his farmland and how to work the farmland to make it profitable. This interview consisted of an abundance of information which is pertinent to the overall goal of the Breaking New Ground Project. All of the information collected from Sanders 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: where crops were sold; how crops were graded to make a profit; detailed farming operations; harsh reality of why farmers have and are currently now having difficulties making a living solely on farming; family and personal history; how the farmland was acquired; who the farmland was purchased from; financial difficulties of farming; family education; daily activities on the farm; minority discrimination; binding points; natural disasters; specific crops grown; County Extension Agents; other African American landowners; herbicide usage; the importance of the church in his life and the community; race relations between other black landowners and white landowners; what his farmland means to him. |
Citation | Interview with Jimmy Sanders by Bridget Stephens, 7 June 2011 U-0746, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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