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Interview no. | U-0848 |
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 July 2012 |
Interviewee | Hunter, Lillian Glass, 1933- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Farmers Managers Consultants |
Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around Glass family history and the family farm in New Madrid County, both Mrs. Hunter's early childhood memories and her later experience managing the farm after her father died. Topics include: Migration from Tennessee and Arkansas; Family business in Blytheville, AR; Family farm in Roseland, AR; La Forge Resettlement Project; Loan from Prudential Insurance Co.; Effect of World War II on small Black farmers; Farm labor; Farm chemicals and leasing arrangements; Farm custom work; L & L Land Co.; Bank loans; Education; Farm and labor management; Country life; Pemiscot County, MO. |
Citation | Interview with Lillian Glass Hunter by Heidi Dodson, 6 July 2012 U-0848, 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. | U0848_Audio |