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Object Description
Interview no. | U-0789 |
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 | 30 May 2011 |
Interviewee |
Heath, Eulah, 1923- Heath, Joyce. |
Interviewee occupation | Homemakers |
Interviewee DOB | 1923 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wey, Winifred. |
Abstract | The topics covered in this interview discuss all aspects of what life was like for the Heath family of Lancaster, S.C.: genealogy of both Eulah Heath's family; crosses over into how the land was acquired and the early life Heath; marrying Mr. Heath and the birth of her children with their farming business; jobs Heath did as farming was a supplemental income; Joyce Heath learning to farm, going to high school and being a part of 4-H; their personal lives in general; civil rights movement; the Pigford case; everyday race relations; racial encounters; the legacy of land-owning and independence of farming and what it means to them. |
Citation | Interview with Eulah Heath and Joyce Heath by Winifred Wey, 30 May 2011 U-0789, 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. | U0789_Transcript |