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Interview no. | U-0687 |
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 | 12 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Strong, Earl. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | This interview with Earl Strong was organized around several topics: family history; his father was a sharecropper in Rockingham, N.C.; interacting with white tenants; he and his children did not want to farm so they went into public jobs; Strong went into military service to support his family; fighting in Korea with his brother, Marvin Strong; how the family acquired land and income; descriptions of his average day, school, work, and the house where he grew up; working in different cities; voting rights; his family did not suffer greatly economically; Strong's father moved from place to place seeking better deals as a sharecropper; segregation; storytelling and playing games; education; the importance of landowning. |
Citation | Interview with Earl Strong by Sawde Salifou, 12 June 2011 U-0687, 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. | U0687_Audio |