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Interview no. | U-0900 |
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 | 9 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Jordan, Freddie, 1953- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1953 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hand, Shane. |
Abstract | The interview with Freddie Jordan mostly concerns his memories of his grandparents’ farm on his mother's side. His grandparents mostly grew cotton and corn on their 200 acres. Jordan begins with his mother's side of the family, and he shared very little of his father's side of the family who were not farmers. A number of topics are covered in this short interview, including: purchasing the farm; selling portions of the original farm to family; gender differences on the farm; and, managing the farm while the grandfather was away. Jordan briefly discusses race relations in his community as well as the cooperation between black and white farmers. About halfway through the interview, the conversation turns to his father's side of the family. He continues with a discussion of the Datcher farm and Red Datcher himself. From there, Jordan shares what he remembers of the protests from black farmers in Alabama during the 1970s and the 1990s. Finally, Freddie Jordan wraps up the conversation by stating what he has learned from farm life. He discusses his health problems, his wife, and ends by stating that he never wants to plant another seed. This is not due to him not appreciating farming; rather it is due to the hard life and work that farming requires. |
Citation | Interview with Freddie Jordan by Shane Hand, 9 June 2012 U-0900, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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