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Interview no. | U-0682 |
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 | 4 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Ridenhour, Elsa, 1949- |
Interviewee occupation | Nurses |
Interviewee DOB | 1949 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Elsa Ridenhour's interview took place in Troy, N.C. and was organized around several topics: family history; paternal grandfather owned land and grew vegetables' maternal grandfather did not have a land but raised cattle; her father had garden and raised hogs, and he did some public work and her mother worked in a textile mill; her father purchased the land from a white man. Ridenhour inherited land; grew up in a four-bedroom house which was build in the 1960; she worked in cotton field; went to a segregated school and 1968, schools were integrated. She talked about the importance of education in their family; living in a primarily black community but with some white business; one of her pastors was white and they had a good relationship; family involvement in church; voting after the civil right movements; she participated in 4-H as a child; how her family used to have fun. |
Citation | Interview with Elsa Ridenhour by Sawde Salifou, 4 June 2011 U-0682, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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