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Interview no. | U-0889 |
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 | 18 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Adams, Harold Leslie, 1953- |
Interviewee occupation |
Managers Non-profit organization employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1953 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hand, Shane. |
Abstract | This interview largely centered on the life of Harold Leslie Adams, including his family background, education, and career. Adams emphasizes race relations as well throughout much of the oral history. Leslie Adams has completed some genealogical research on his mother's side of the family back to his great-great grandparents. His grandparents were farmers with a couple of hundred acres of farmland in Jayess, Mississippi. Farming remains central for the first half of the interview, which relates to multiple themes, such as: family; the great migration; and, being a city boy from the North spending time in the South. The second half of the interview largely leaves behind the emphasis on farming as Adams brings his story up to today; however, food and nutrition remains a central to his work today. As the office manager for Urban Ministries, the parent ministry for WE Community Garden in Birmingham, Alabama, Adams helps provide means for supplying the local elderly population with adequate food. Adams ends this interview by reflecting back over his life and his family, and concludes that although there is much pain and hardship in the world, there remains much to be thankful for. |
Citation | Interview with Harold Leslie Adams by Shane Hand, 18 June 2012 U-0889, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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