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Interview no. | U-0978 |
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 | 6 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Willis, Elouise, 1944- |
Interviewee occupation | Food service employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1944 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | Topics discussed in this interview include her father's sharecropping days in Madison County and going from renting land from whites to purchasing more than 40 acres from a family member who owned 80 acres. The Madison County School District acquired some of the land, and Willis currently lives on 3.5 acres of the land her father purchased from a black educator who wanted blacks to own property to build homes. Other topics include raising animals and crops to sell to whites, local grocery stores and to a farmer's market; her father's record-keeping methods; her father's involvement in the local church; her father encouraging his children to own their own; and the property they were renting being bought out to build the Reservoir. |
Citation | Interview with Elouise Willis by Riva Brown Teague, 6 June 2012 U-0978, 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. | U0978_Audio |