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Interview no. | U-0786 |
Restrictions | Permission of interviewee/interviewer required to 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 | 2 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Simmons-Henry, Linda. |
Interviewee occupation | Archivists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Ms. Simmons-Henry is an archivist at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, NC, though she grew up on her family farm land outside New Bern, NC. Her family still owns much of the land today, and she had hoped to take me to show me around the property, some of the structures which have been standing for several generations, and introduce me to her mother and other elder's in her family. She is willing to have a follow up in New Bern if it can be scheduled. Topics included: New Bern, NC, family genealogy, WWII migration, higher education, Andrews Chapel Church, Bruce and Minnie McKinnon, tenant farmers and their children, church bombing in New Bern, desegregation, Rheems community, Five Points neighborhood in New Bern, social events, 4-H club, PTA, Urban Development, J.T. Barber High School, and the benefits of land ownership. |
Citation | Interview with Linda Simmons-Henry by Michael Verville, 2 June 2011 U-0786, 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. | U0786_Audio |