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Interview no. | U-0755 |
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 | 10 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Rambo, Classie Mae, 1924- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1924 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Substantively, this interview was organized around the theme of Classie Mae Rambo's involvement and later interaction with the Breedlove-Stubbs farming community in Georgia. Rambo was born in 1924, and is one of the oldest living members from the Breedlove-Stubbs farming community. She has lived in her home for over fifty years, and even though she no longer lives on her family farm, she continues to garden and raise chickens for her personal consumption and that of her family. Rambo was able to provide a highly detailed discussion of her daily interaction with not only her farming community but the larger African American community of the surrounding area. Because of her age, she knows very little about the allotment and other federal farming programs; by the time these programs began, Rambo's father had stopped farming and had started to rent his family's land, which they still own. Rambo's conclusion as to what the land meant and means to her was also very telling of a particular space and place. |
Citation | Interview with Classie Mae Rambo by Eric Jonas Stephens, 10 June 2011 U-0755, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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