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Interview no. | U-0679 |
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 | 12 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Patterson, Mary, 1925- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1925 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Mary Patterson began the interview by providing her family history; she grew up in Rockingham, N.C.; father was a minister and a sharecropper, and her mother was a teacher; her father acquired 175 acres of land through a government program with the option to buy, but gave it back to the government because he was getting older and his two sons went into service; neighbors sold their land to the government; both of her brothers were World War II veterans and father was a World War I veteran; the description of the house where she grew up (which the government built); education; went to a segregated high school; discrimination; extension agent trained the family; participated in the 4-H program; her experience gardening. |
Citation | Interview with Mary Patterson by Sawde Salifou, 12 June 2011 U-0679, 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. | U0679_Audio |