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Interview no. | U-0960 |
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 | 15 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Anderson, Clyde, 1956- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Carpenters |
Interviewee DOB | 1956 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | The interviewee traced his family history back to 1907 and a slave on his maternal side. His maternal great-grandparents purchased 120 acres, while his maternal grandparents purchased 50 acres. He owns another 45 acres, 30 he inherited from his godparents and 15 he bought from other heirs. His paternal family members were sharecroppers. Topics discussed include how the family came to own the land and how they made a living from it; skin color dynamics within the family because of white and Native American ancestry; black land owners in the Edwards area between the 1920s and 1980s and how some of them lost most of their property to white business owners; black land owners who do not have mineral rights (natural gas and oil) on their own property; his maternal family's "fear" relationships with whites and "jealousy" relationships with blacks; growing up living with his grandparents and working on their farm; how the family came to purchase its first tractor; a description of his grandparent's middle-class home; and dealings with the USDA. |
Citation | Interview with Clyde Anderson by Riva Brown Teague, 15 June 2012 U-0960, 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. | U0960_Audio |