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Interview no. | U-0688 |
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 | 11 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Strong, Marvin, 1929- |
Interviewee occupation |
Labor leaders Railroad employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1929 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | This interview with Marvin Strong was organized around several topics: moving from South Carolina to North Carolina; family history; how his family acquired land; father was able to purchase 30 acres of land by making a payment; one generation lived on the land; the house he was raised in; selling 13 acres of land because of the landfill; relationship between whites and blacks. status as veteran and fighting in the Korean War; the importance of having a land; farming was the main economy in his community in the 1950s and 1960s; the government paid for his education after returning from Korea; help from government programs; the community helping one another; he was union leader for the railroad; black leaders and discrimination. |
Citation | Interview with Marvin Strong by Sawde Salifou, 11 June 2011 U-0688, 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. | U0688_Audio |