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Interview no. | K-1082 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.1.2. Southern Communities: Individual Projects: Coastal Carolina |
Project description | Interviews, 1994-1999, that focus on coastal North Carolina counties where World War II defense industries and military bases sparked rapid and unprecedented change. The coast, previously a land of sharecroppers, small farmers, fishing villages, and timber camps, was transformed as thousands of civilian workers poured into industry and women and African Americans entered skilled occupations for the first time. |
Date | 23 July 1999 |
Interviewee | Howell, Eddie, 1923- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1923 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Glusman, Melynn. |
Abstract | This interview with Eddie Howell was conducted by Melynn Glusman in summer 1999 as research on life in coastal communities in North Carolina during the mid-twentieth century, particularly during World War II. Howell, a farmer and sharecropper, moved to Morehead City, N.C. in the early 1940s. He provides many stories about sharecropping in the twentieth century and the development of Morehead City, N.C. since the 1940s. |
Citation | Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], 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. | K1082_Audio_1 |