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Interview no. | U-0945 |
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 | Brown, Roy Lee, 1957- |
Interviewee occupation |
Government employees Railroad employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1957 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smith, Angela. |
Abstract | Roy Lee Brown is a farmer and railroad worker from Tchula, MS, where he currently resides. He is one of two active black farmers in that town. The son of a housemaid and a horse hand, he was raised on a farm. After going to college and starting work on Canadian Railways, he continues to farm nearly 600 acres with his brother. |
Citation | Interview with Roy Lee Brown by Angela Smith, 16 June 2012 U-0945, 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. | U0945_Audio |