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Interview no. | U-0767 |
Restrictions | Permission of interviewee and interviewer required to read, listen to, or quote from interview. |
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 | Brandon, Stanley, 1967- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Industrial Mechanics |
Interviewee DOB | 1967 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Mr. Stanley's interview took place on his front porch, and began around 8:30 p.m. The interview was recorded in three parts; however, the first section was lost when the batteries suddenly lost charge. Mr. Stanley informed me that he as of a few years ago he was one of around 70 independent African American farmers under the age of fifty, nationwide. Although he says he mostly gave up farming around 6-7 years ago, he still keeps horses and grows wheat. His family has farmed and owned their land in the area around Alton, VA for several generations. Topics included: family history, difficulties of modern farming, land acquisition, Lorillard Tobacco, Roland Wilson of Halifax, VA, local farming families (Brandon, Coleman, Cunningham, Hudson), sharecropping, farmers' lawsuit, higher education, country store, church, and community watch. |
Citation | Interview with Stanley Brandon by Michael Verville, 3 June 2011 U-0767, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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