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Interview no. | U-0656 |
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 | 27 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Anderson, James, 1927- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1927 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Ferguson, Robert Hunt. |
Abstract | The interview with Mr. James Anderson focused mainly on his memories growing up on a farm in Holmes County, Miss., during the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Anderson's parents farmed land that they owned and farmed land that they rented so he knew both owning and sharecropping. In the 1950s, James Anderson began to take over his father's land and farmed it in addition to working other jobs. Mr. Anderson also discussed living and working in Milwaukee, Wis., for several years as a young man before moving back to Mississippi. Finally, Mr. Anderson spoke about being part of the local civil rights movement in Lexington, Miss., registering to vote with his parents, running for local office, and being threatened with violence by local whites. |
Citation | Interview with James Anderson by Robert H. Ferguson, 27 June 2011 U-0656, 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. | U0656_Audio |