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Interview no. | U-0973 |
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 | 22 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Teague, Clara, 1934- |
Interviewee occupation |
Factory workers Food service employees Dental assistants |
Interviewee DOB | 1934 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview focused on the background of Clara Lee Nichols Teague (interviewer's mother-in-law) and her family history and land in Attala County, MS. She is from Possum Neck, MS, where she lived with her parents, Willie and Geneva Nichols, and her 8 sisters and 6 brothers. Her father was a sharecropper and a horse trainer. Clara Teague was born in 1934 and married in 1950. She had eight children, including 5 boys (1 set of twins) and 3 girls. Her grandmother on her father's side was Native American. Her father bought three acres of land, 1 in Attala County and 2 in nearby Holmes County, after his wife's death and after his children were grown and gone. He gave away what he grew on the property, which is still in the family. Clara Teague lived on the Attala County property until 1991, when she purchased the six acres on which she currently lives. She raises farm animals and grows vegetables. |
Citation | Interview with Clara Teague by Riva Brown Teague, 22 May 2012 U-0973, 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. | U0973_Audio |