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Interview no. | U-0774 |
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 | 17 August 2011 |
Interviewee | Harrell, Haywood, 1946- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Mr. Harrell is a graduate of North Carolina A&T. He is a retired Agricultural Extension agent. He grew up the son of sharecroppers in Hertford County, NC, near Ahoskey. He has been farming since 1980, and has added several tracts of land over the years. His farm operation is multigenerational, and his son, after going to college, returned home to work in farming. His office and farm is located in the New Deal Resettlement near Tillery, NC. Topics included: modern farming, sharecropping, Agricultural Extension office, Tillery, NC, Ahoskey, NC, NRCS, public work, education, church involvement. |
Citation | Interview with Haywood Harrell by Michael Verville, 17 August 2011 U-0774, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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