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Interview no. | U-0961 |
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 | 30 May 2012 |
Interviewee |
Arrington, Tommie, 1937- Arrington, Minnie, 1942- Arrington, Ralph, 1970- |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1937; 1942; 1970 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview primarily was with Tommie Arrington. His wife, Minnie Lee Arrington and their son Ralph also contributed. The Arringtons are well-educated and are retired or current educators. The Arringtons own about 250 acres outright; however, they have about 400 acres altogether that they are either overseeing or in the process of purchasing. Of that land, at least 233 acres in Camden were purchased in the early 1990s from a white man. It is primarily timber, but the Arringtons also raise cattle. Tommie Arrington pays taxes on approximately 100 acres in Jasper, Jones and Clarke counties that were passed down from his maternal and paternal grandparents. Tommie Arrington talks about the history and use of all the land, his white and Indian ancestry, and his family's involvement in the 4-H club through the years. The paternal side of Minnie Lee Arrington's family owned about110 acres in Camden and 100 in Carthage (Leake County), MS. The maternal side of her family was sharecroppers in nearly Sharon (Madison County), MS who inherited 30 acres in Camden. |
Citation | Interview with Tommie Arrington, Minnie Arrington, and Ralph Arrington by Riva Brown Teague, 30 May 2012 U-0961, 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. | U0961_Audio |