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Interview no. | U-0844 |
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 | 22 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Faucette, Jacquelyn, 1956- |
Interviewee occupation | Administrative assistants |
Interviewee DOB | 1956 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around Ms. Faucette's family history, the different rural communities she lived in as a child, and family farm activities. Topics in Part 1 include: Family history in Arkansas; Bird-Rush-Dirk School district; Rush Ridge community (Mississippi Co., MO); Brewer's Lake (Mississippi Co., MO); Booker T. Washington School (Wyatt, Mississippi Co., MO); Perceptions of country vs. city; African American teachers; Non-farm jobs her parents held; Black and white socializing; Integration of Mississippi Co., MO schools; Farm loans; Pigford v. Glickman; Aspects of daily farm life. Topics in Part 2 include: Businesses in Wyatt, MO; Brewer's Lake; Booker T. Washington School; Rush Ridge Cemetery; Bird-Rush-Dirk School; Flooding; Farm of Joe and Lillian Bankhead and David and Laura Burnett. |
Citation | Interview with Jacquelyn Faucette by Heidi Dodson, 22 June 2012 U-0844, 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. | U0844_Audio |