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Interview no. | U-0677 |
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 | Lockhart, Arthur, 1952- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | This interview with Arthur Lockhart was organized around several topics: family history; his family purchased the land using a payment from a tax collector; father was in construction and his mother worked in chicken processing plant. His parents owned 3.5 acres of land in Rockingham, N.C.; his father migrated to New Jersey for 16 years and then came back; grandfather's house burned; Arthur inherited the 3.5 acres of land; description of the house that he grew up in; the main economy was farming, including vegetables, sugar cane, and tobacco; trade of goods; sharecroppers; extension agent; education; the relationship between whites and black, discrimination, political involvement, social groups, and the Ku Klux Klan; the Order of the Eastern Star; church; high school in Rockingham, N.C.; land-owning. |
Citation | Interview with Arthur Lockhart by Salifou Sawde, 11 June 2011 U-0677, 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. | U0677_Audio |