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Interview no. | U-0924 |
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 | 19 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Copeland, Allen. |
Interviewee occupation |
Coaches (Athletic) Students |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Randolph, Justin. |
Abstract | This interview dealt with the accepted family history of Allen Copeland, currently an undergraduate at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida and a 2012 Breaking New Ground Fellow. Topics include: his family's landownership near Cairo in South Georgia, the traditional history of the land's acquisition, the type and use of the family's land, and the success of the family's farming operation. Further, discussion led to: recreation in the farming community, the presence of bootlegged alcohol, the establishments that purveyed such, his grandfather's establishment (the Shady Rest), its doubling as a candy store during the day, the economics of alcohol during prohibition, and the prevalence of whisky stills in the farm's area. Copeland also retold transmitted stories of race relations concerning the farm, such as: white neighbors, law enforcement, and any known violence in the area. |
Citation | Interview with Allen Copeland by Justin Randolph, 19 May 2012 U-0924, 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. | U0924_Audio |