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Interview no. | U-0955 |
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 | Head, Calvin, 1961- |
Interviewee occupation |
Manufacturers Government employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1961 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smith, Angela. |
Abstract | Calvin Head is a community leader in the Mileston community of Tchula, MS. He has worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA as well as an independent consultant for the farming community in Mileston. For nearly 30 years, he has worked to revitalize farming for the benefit of the community and the region. |
Citation | Interview with Calvin Head by Angela Smith, 22 June 2012 U-0955, 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. | U0955_Audio |