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Interview no. | U-0659 |
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 | 21 June 2011 |
Interviewee |
King, Larry A., 1948- King, Charlie, 1924- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1948; 1924 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Ferguson, Robert Hunt. |
Abstract | Overall, this interview focused on discrimination the Kings faced from the State of Mississippi when their land was bypassed during levee construction along the Yazoo River and from the federal government when they approached the USDA for a loan to purchase more land. The Kings showed me documents they had filed through various avenues in order to get some redress for the discrimination they experienced. Other than being plaintiffs in the Pigford I case, they have not felt that they were adequately compensated for the discrimination they experienced as African Americans. The remainder of the interview involved flooding along the Yazoo River from the 1920s to the 1940s and Charlie King's recollections of growing up on the farm - mechanization, education, food, community events, etc. |
Citation | Interview with Larry A. King and Charlie King by Robert H. Ferguson, 21 June 2011 U-0659, 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. | U0659_Audio |