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Interview no. | U-0752 |
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 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Foster, Charlie Mae. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Charlie Mae Foster was able to provide a tentative outline to her family history as well as her father's agricultural endeavors as an independent land owner. Foster provided a really good understanding of everyday life on a farm in rural Southwest Georgia. Her discussion of the cultivation of cotton, peanuts, and beans was in-depth. Foster also does a really good job in providing a visual image of the community she grew up in as a child. She grew up in a family with a long history of independent African American landowners; however, she married a man, Charlie W. Foster, (who was interviewed by Bridget D. Stephens on 30 May 2011), who appears to have participated in almost every form of land tillage from sharecropping, to renting, to wage farm laborer. |
Citation | Interview with Charlie Mae Foster by Eric Jonas Stephens, 30 May 2011 U-0752, 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. | U0752_Audio |