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Interview no. | U-0962 |
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 | Beamon, Betty Ruth, 1948- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Singers Musicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1948 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview focused on the land owned by Betty Beamon and her family in Camden, MS. She was born in Camden but left for Detroit, MI with her parents at age 2 when her father, a farmer, got a job working at a Chrysler automobile plant. She inherited land at age 25 and returned to Camden in 2009. She has worked as a country music singer and songwriter in Nashville. Beamon has Indian ancestry on both sides of her family. She lives on five of the acres she owns and farms on other land her mother owns. One of her brothers cares for cattle her mother owns. She conducts business with other nearby black farm owners, selling plants to them and selling the produce they grow. Beamon's family on her father's side owns 107 acres; she lives on and works some of that land. The family on her mother's side owns about 800 acres. Beamon's mother is paying taxes on that land, but it is mostly unused. Some of that land was rented to a white farmer. |
Citation | Interview with Betty Ruth Beamon by Riva Brown Teague, 30 May 2012 U-0962, 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. | U0962_Audio |