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Interview no. | U-0773 |
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 | Grant, Gary R., 1943- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Teachers Community organizers |
Interviewee DOB | 1943 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Mr. Grant is a member of one of the original "resettlement families" from Tillery, N.C., a New Deal Resettlement. His family has owned property there since 1947, after leaving Virginia. His ancestors included white and black farm owners, and sharecroppers. Mr. Grant currently lives in Tillery, and is currently the Executive Director of Concerned Citizens of Tillery. Topics included: farming, New Deal Resettlement, World War II, Halifax County, N.C., Tillery, NC, race relations, education, USDA, Roanoke River, community activism, discrimination in federal aid, elections, Tillery Improvement Association, NAACP, interracial marriage, sharecroppers, modern-day discrimination, and the Pigford Case. |
Citation | Interview with Gary R. Grant by Michael Verville, 17 August 2011 U-0773, 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. | U0773_Audio |