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Interview no. | U-0649 |
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 | 2 August 2011 |
Interviewee | Epps, Henry, 1926- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Religious leaders |
Interviewee DOB | 28 March 1926 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Conner, Catherine A. |
Abstract | This interview covers the life of Bishop Henry Epps, a former farmer and current religious leader of the Lake City-Kingstree community in Kingstree, S.C. Epps' family history reveals how African Americans gained land after the Civil War and how some of his family members, including his father, lost land from the 1920s and 1940s. Epps' life is both one of struggle and hope that reveals the various opportunities and obstacles for rural southern African Americans. Throughout his adult life, Epps was one of the many working poor in the rural South. Topics include: black farm ownership from the late 19th century to the 1930s; slavery; sharecropping; tobacco farming; farming practices; gardening for family sustenance; food pathways; community dinners; born-again Christianity; ministering; public school; public-housing; the Great Depression; Works Progress Administration; and the Second Great Migration. |
Citation | Interview with Henry Epps by Catherine Conner, 2 August 2011 U-0649, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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