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Interview no. | U-0856 |
Restrictions | Audio closed pending editing. |
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 | 11 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Speller, Eugene, 1928- |
Interviewee occupation |
Engineers College presidents |
Interviewee DOB | 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around agriculture, education, and race relations in Mississippi County, Missouri as well as Dr. Speller's experience working for John Deere in Ohio. Topics include: Sharecropping; Renting; Rural African American education; Rural communities of Fish Lake, Samos, Pinhook, and Windyville, MO; rural African American education; Cleo Wright lynching (Sikeston, MO); Pinhook, MO; Rural school transportation; Racism; 1937 Flood; Black landowners; Robinson family (Pinhook, MO); Christian Liberty District Association; Bird's Point-New Madrid Floodway; John Deere Co. (Waterloo, OH); White coercion of Black rural school teachers; College experiences in Michigan and Texas. |
Citation | Interview with Eugene Speller by Heidi Dodson, 11 June 2012 U-0856, 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. | U0856_Transcript |