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Interview no. | U-0972 |
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 | 13 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Reid, Nettie Steen, 1936- |
Interviewee occupation |
Domestic workers Nurses Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1936 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview was about the 100 acres Reid's maternal grandfather, Will Gardner, purchased around the late 1800s or early 1900s in Rankin County and the additional 81 acres she purchased in 1989. Reid's mother, Beatrice Evans, encouraged her to purchase the land, which is directly across the street from the land Gardner owned, because she thought the family should own the land they once worked as sharecroppers. Topics include how Gardner purchased the land; a description of the old home place, where Reid's family relocated when she was a teen; why her father and paternal grandfather worked and lived on land they never purchased; her grandparents’ standing in the community; how her family lost about 65 of their 100 acres to a white business owner; and how she’d like her 81 acres and her family's remaining 35 acres used (hunting/fishing cabins and youth community center respectively). |
Citation | Interview with Nettie Steen Reid by Riva Brown Teague, 13 June 2012 U-0972, 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. | U0972_Audio |