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Interview no. | U-0810 |
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 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Carter, Harold, 1948- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Information technology professionals |
Interviewee DOB | 1948 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Copeland, Allen. |
Abstract | This interview was organized around black land ownership and its effects on Mr. Harold J. Carter. Mr. Carter talked about a variety of things such as: family history; his own personal history; everyday life on the farm; chores he and his siblings had to do, friends and relatives in the community; gathering crops; churning butter; jarring fruit and vegetables; the role his parent's plaid in the church; church in general; education of his parents & what it meant to them; his education and siblings education; race relationships; class relationships; government allotments; what the land meant to him and his family; what the land means to his children; how's the land being used today. |
Citation | Interview with Harold Carter by Allen Copeland, 17 June 2012 U-0810, 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. | U0810_Audio |