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Interview no. | U-0974 |
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 | 13 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Teague, Walter, 1925- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Loggers |
Interviewee DOB | 1925 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview focused on the background of Walter Teague, 86, and his family history and land in Attala County, MS. He was born in 1925 in Attala County, where he lived with her parents, Henry Teague and Callie Perteet Teague. He was the youngest of their 9 children, 5 girls and 4 boys. His father was a farmer who owned 80 acres of land he purchased from his father-in-law, Bill Perteet. Walter Teague's father grew cotton, corn and peas and raised cattle. Walter Teague's father made a living growing and selling cotton and selling milk. After his father's death, the property was divided among his brothers and sisters. Walter Teague currently owns 26 of his father's original 80 acres. He once raised cattle but his primary occupation was as a self-employed logger hauling pulp wood. Most of the property is open and wooded fields that is not being used for farming. One of his nine children lives next door to him on one acre of the land. |
Citation | Interview with Walter Teague by Riva Brown Teague, 23 May 2012 U-0974, 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. | U0974_Audio |