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Interview no. | U-0911 |
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 | 16 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Gillespie, Richard, 1947- |
Interviewee occupation |
Military Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1947 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Moore, Ashley. |
Abstract | This interview was organized around several themes, all connected to the early life and family history Richard Gillespie: Freestone county, Indians, French, great grandfather 500 acres Salem TX, 150 acres Freestone County, crops, cotton, wheat, hay fruits and vegetable, Juneteenth celebration, Sinbaugh Picnic 20 or 30 acres, pecan trees, Vietnam War 1968, assignation Martin Luther King Jr. Abraham Lincoln, injustice, racial tensions. |
Citation | Interview with Richard Gillespie by Ashley Moore, 16 June 2012 U-0911, 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. | U0911_Audio |