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Interview no. | U-0658 |
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 | 29 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Jackson, Walter, 1960- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1960 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Ferguson, Robert Hunt. |
Abstract | Given the fact that Mr. Jackson did not become a land owner until the 1980s and since he is involved with conservation policy, we mostly talked about some of the policies that face farmers currently, his experiences growing up in Ruleville, his involvement with the Extension Service and 4-H. The main purpose of the interview, however, was so that I could provide Mr. Jackson with an overview of the project face-to-face. He has proved indispensible when it comes to putting me in touch with black farm owners in Mississippi. Mr. Jackson has been one of my best sources. |
Citation | Interview with Walter Jackson by Robert H. Ferguson, 29 June 2011 U-0658, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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