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Interview no. | U-0738 |
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 | 30 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Foster, Charlie W., 1929- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1929 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Charlie Will Foster was born in 1929 in Elmodel, Ga. (route 37 in Newton). This interview consisted of an abundance of information which is pertinent to the overall goal of the Breaking New Ground Project. All of the information collected from Foster was relevant to the massive objective of collecting oral interviews which are intended to unearth the history of black farm owning families from as early as the twentieth century to the present. Topics of discussion included: family history and the construction of a family tree beginning with his mother and father; his own personal history; his acquaintances in the community he lived in; life off of the farm; minimal information about his father acquired and lost his 62 acres of farmland near Cedar Grove Church; certain economic prices; overall atmosphere of the relations (black/white relations) in the community in which he lived in; his father's involvement in the WPA (Work Projects Administration); the practice of issuing settlement checks and governmental allotments or plowing under crops; particular crops which were planted; provided information regarding a mud check; his life after he left his family. |
Citation | Interview with Charlie Will Foster by Bridget Stephens, 30 May 2011 U-0738, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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