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Interview no. | U-0681 |
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 | 3 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Reddick, Lafayette, 1942- |
Interviewee occupation |
Barbers Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1942 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Lafeyette Reddick's interview began with a history of his family; father was a sharecropper and also did public work in textile; what the family grew on the farm; paternal grandfather owned the land; the court home in Rockingham, N.C. burned in 1900; his family moved New York, Baltimore, Md.,and New Jersey; Reddick purchased and inherited land; description of the house he grew up in; segregation of schools and discrimination; his mother worked as a housekeeper to support the family; the entire family worked on the farm; people helped each other harvesting tobacco; the importance of owning a land; the civil rights movement and the relationship between whites and blacks; the Great Depression and how it impacted his family; nickname of the Black Jack community in North Carolina; education in the family. |
Citation | Interview with Lafayette Reddick by Sawde Salifou, 3 June 2011 U-0681, 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. | U0681_Audio |