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Interview no. | U-0869 |
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 | 5 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Richardson, Veloia, 1925- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1925 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Domanich, Veronica. |
Abstract | Substantively, this interview was organized around several themes, all connected to Velioa's life in Folsom, LA. Topics include: general overview of her childhood; her work at the nursery; the farm her and her husband purchased; her kids; her parents farm and crops; cotton and the Franklinton Cotton Gin; the effect of the depression and WWII; her education; the race relations in her community at the time she was growing up; responsibilities on the farm; her relatives and their place in the community; and the significance farming had on her life. |
Citation | Interview with Veloia Richardson by Veronica Domanich, 5 June 2012 U-0869, 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. | U0869_Audio |