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Interview no. | U-0680 |
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 | Price, Dorothy, 1924- |
Interviewee occupation |
Cooks Domestic workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1924 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Dorothy Price was born in 1924 in Rockingham, N.C. Price's father, grandfather and uncles worked in turpentine. Her father was involved in the community and gave some land to build a church the area. He was an independent farmer, and he purchased many acres of the land. During the Great Depression, her father saved cotton until the price went up then he sold it. He grew vegetables, wheat, and cotton. Her brothers worked in coal mines in West Virginia and sent money every week to their father. Her father passed away at 69 years old. Her mother made clothes and wine for a living. Price discussed the Great Depressions' impact on families in the community. She inherited 32 acres of land from her father. Dorothy worked at the church in her community and taught Sunday school. She moved to West Virginia and New Jersey, and came back to North Carolina in 1972. She attended Rockingham High School. Price talked about discrimination and how black people helped each other. She voted in 1940. They had a good relationship with white neighbors. |
Citation | Interview with Dorothy Price by Salifou Sawde, 3 June 2011 U-0680, 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. | U0680_Audio |