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Interview no. | U-0866 |
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 | 13 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Magee, Gene, 1955- |
Interviewee occupation |
Truck drivers Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1955 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Domanich, Veronica. |
Abstract | Substantively, this interview was organized around several themes all connected to Gene's connection with farming in Franklinton, LA: How his family came to own the property he lives on today; sharecropping; Cotton picking; Mules; integration; life in Kansas City and Seattle, Gene's education, his parent's education, His mother's connection with the Beth the Church, the Baptist church on his parents land; and the value of landowning. |
Citation | Interview with Gene Magee by Veronica Domanich, 13 June 2012 U-0866, 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. | U0866_Audio |