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Interview no. | U-0823 |
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 | 15 July 2012 |
Interviewee |
Williams family: Williams, Belle, 1934- Williams, Clara, 1933- Williams, Carlie, 1926- Williams, Carey, 1928- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1934; 1933; 1926; 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Copeland, Allen. |
Abstract | This interview was organized around black land ownership and its effects on The Williams Family. Interviewees consist of Carlie Williams, Carey Williams, Clara Cradle, and Belle Williams. The Williams Family talked about a variety of different subjects: family history; their own personal history; everyday life on the farm; chores the siblings had to do; jarring fruit and vegetables; friends and relatives in the community; hog killings; the role there parent's plaid in the church; church in general; education of their parents & what it meant to them; there education and siblings education; race relationships; class relationships; government allotments; what the land means to them; what the land means to the younger generation of Williams; how the land being used today. |
Citation | Interview with the Williams family by Allen Copeland, 15 July 2012 U-0823, 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. | U0823_Audio |