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Interview no. | U-0769 |
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 | 26 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Cooper, Leonard, 1921- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Agriculture agents |
Interviewee DOB | 1921 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Mr. Cooper's interview took place in his home, with his wife present throughout, and to begin with his nurse. Mr. Cooper, I was told, had surgery earlier in the year and was still recovering. Although he was happy to speak to me, there was a strict deadline which had to be kept due to an appointment with a physical therapist. His wife helped him fill out his release form and family history, and the first 17 minutes of recording mostly consists of discussions relating to the paperwork. Mr. Cooper grew up in a farm-owning family, he went to college, eventually took a job with the County Extension Office, and upon retirement returned to full-time farming. Topics included: his family history, tobacco production, the family store, the Oxford, NC tobacco market, trips to the tobacco market, the Pitchford, Parham, and Gregory families, the Dabney and Browntown communities in Oxford, NC, church involvement, North Carolina A&T, northern migration, "Granville Store" in Oxford, NC, black U.S. Army Air Corps pilots during WWII, and the Agricultural Extension Offices in Goldsboro and Warrenton, NC. |
Citation | Interview with Leonard Cooper by Michael Verville, 26 May 2011 U-0769, 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. | U0769_Transcript |