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Interview no. | U-0833 |
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 | 5 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Myers, Billy L., 1947- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1947 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | This interview is centered around Billy Myers' life upon his return to Mississippi from Illinois, where his family moved when he was a child. He discusses how and where he learned how to farm, and how that technique has changed over time, as well as how the Indian Springs Co-operative has helped him as a farmer, since his father was a founding member. Although no one else in his family is interested in farming the land in Mississippi, he maintains nearly all of it, and describes what and how he farms and what he feels will happen to the land in subsequent generations. |
Citation | Interview with Billy L. Myers by Kelly Davila, 5 June 2012 U-0833, 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. | U0833_Audio |