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Interview no. | U-0838 |
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 | Travis, Donnie Pen, 1952- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | The interview is centered on the life of Pen Travis, and what he perceives to be the final generation of farmers in his family. He discusses how his father farmed and the cotton cash crop, and the transition into row cropping and his taking over the farm when his father became ill. Major topics covered in this interview include the federal government's involvement in farming practices throughout the latter half of the 20th century, and how that involvement changed the way farming was done and what types of crops were grown. Also discussed are the differences in time as well as between races on the issue of federal involvement. |
Citation | Interview with Donnie Pen Travis by Kelly Davila, 30 May 2012 U-0838, 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. | U0838_Audio |