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Interview no. | U-0657 |
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, Roy, 1953- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1953 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Ferguson, Robert Hunt. |
Abstract | Mr. Anderson spoke about his memories growing up on his parents' farm near Lexington, Miss. - his chores, his experiences playing baseball in the neighborhood, his love of the country. Mr. Anderson also discussed a five year move to Chicago when he was in his early twenties where he clerked in a law firm. He returned to Lexington and began farming. A recurring theme in the interview is that Mr. Anderson feels that he is a very lucky individual to own land and feels that he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else but on his farm in Lexington. |
Citation | Interview with Roy Anderson by Robert H. Ferguson, 27 June 2011 U-0657, 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. | U0657_Audio |