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Interview no. | U-0842 |
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 | 21 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Cooper, Mike, 1931- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Counselors |
Interviewee DOB | 1931 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around the migration of Mike Cooper's father and grandfather, their farming practices and life philosophies, his mother's farm and household activities, as well as Mike Cooper's experience as an educator. Topics include: family history and migration from MS to AR and MO; education in Hayti, Pemiscot Co., MO, Kennett, Dunklin Co., MO, and Charleston, Mississippi Co., MO; discrimination against small Black farmers; farm loans; the FHA; FSA Farm tenant loans during the New Deal; sharecropper-renter relations; the WPA; description of crops and livestock operations (including Jersey cows, Poland China hogs); school desegregation in Dunklin and Pemiscot counties; his brother Roy's position as the first Black FSA county director in the region; African American politics and voting; Harry S. Truman. |
Citation | Interview with Mike Cooper by Heidi Dodson, 21 June 2012 U-0842, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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