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Interview no. | U-0784 |
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 | 16 August 2011 |
Interviewee | Royster, Ruth, 1937- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Program coordinators Counselors |
Interviewee DOB | 1937 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Ms. Royster was born in the Woodsdale community in Person County, North Carolina (near Roxboro) on July 16, 1937. Her father worked as a share-cropper until 1945 when he purchased a tract of land from John Wrenn, a white landowner. Her family primarily grew tobacco and an assorted variety of fruits and vegetables. Ms. Royster discussed at length her father's willingness to give food (fruits and vegetables grown on the farm) to neighbors and family in need. While in college at NCCU in Durham, NC she served as president the college's branch of the NAACP. She was in Washington D.C. during the March on Washington in 1963, and she was in Los Angeles, CA at the time of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968. Topics included: Roxboro, NC, Woodsdale Community, WWI, WWII, tobacco farming, family genealogy, segregated schools, NCCU, NAACP, The March on Washington. |
Citation | Interview with Ruth Royster by Michael Verville, 16 August 2011 U-0784, 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. | U0784_Audio |