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Interview no. | U-0928 |
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 | 14 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Deanes, Elton Franklin, 1933- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Randolph, Justin. |
Abstract | In this interview Elton Deanes, Sr. speaks about life on his family's Clay County, Mississippi farm from the time he worked on it with his father onward. A third generation black landowning farmer, Deanes (pronounced Dean) recalled the many transitions of farming through his lifetime and the stories passed on to him from his father. Topics include: Deanes' birth by midwife; the initial acquirement of land by Payton Dean, his great-grandfather; the times of cotton monoculture and its selling to the local gin; the treatment of sickness in the county; Deanes' years of grammar school and the lack of county bussing for African American high schoolers; banking establishments in Clay County and his relationship with them; the role of women in rural life; his remembrance of Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War; bootleg liquor and the prevalence of “beer joints” in the country; rural law enforcement via sheriff's deputies. From his life working on the farm and in West Point concurrently he recalled: the dynamic of city and country workers; his sending seven children to college; the general trend of movement off of the land and toward public work; his family's transition to cattle farming; the better opportunity for women. |
Citation | Interview with Elton Deanes by Justin Randolph, 14 June 2012 U-0928, 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. | U0928_Audio |