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Interview no. | U-0750 |
Restrictions | Permission from interviewee required to read or listen to this interview. |
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 | 25 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Breedlove, Marlon. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Marlon Breedlove has been farming since the early 1960, and before that time he worked on his father's, Semoulia Breedlove, farm. Breedlove has always been a civically minded individual and has served in multiple capacities during his years of public service. His interview provides an almost typical understanding of wealthy landowners, both black and white. Throughout the interview he spoke of returning to those farming days of his youth. Breedlove also stated that he has never been able to find an instance when his father was cheated or denied a loan. Breedlove also spoke of those African Americans who were hired to work his father's farm which demonstrates the importance of class to the discussion of race and racism. |
Citation | Interview with Marlon Breedlove by Eric Jonas Stephens, 25 June 2011 U-0750, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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