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Interview no. | U-0843 |
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 | 19 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Cooper, Wash, 1961- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Military |
Interviewee DOB | 1961 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main theme of the interview revolves around Wash Cooper's description of the Pinhook community – where different people lived, churches, what crops were grown, and other natural and built features. Mr. Cooper also talks about work in the fields, his family's migration from Mississippi, his education in East Prairie, and his military experience. Topics include: Sharecropping; Day Labor; Race relations in Mississippi; Transportation of farm labor to nearby states; Rural housing; Sale of produce; Pinhook, Missouri; Community elders; Gardens and yards; Flooding in the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway; Army Corps of Engineers levee blast, May 2011; Government assistance after flooding; Migration from MS to AR and MO; Military career; Community attitudes toward the military; Education; Churches; Church music; Regional job opportunities; Work ethics; African American political participation; the value of country life and experience. |
Citation | Interview with Wash Cooper by Heidi Dodson, 19 June 2012 U-0843, 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. | U0843_Audio |