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Interview no. | U-0724 |
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 | 12 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Waymer, Adam, 1940- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1940 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smalls, Stella. |
Abstract | Adam Waymer's interview centered on several points. The first point was the fact that besides being a farmer, Waymer worked outside jobs to support his family. Waymer also discussed the effects of the civil rights movement, day-to-day farm life, and that the he inherited his farm land from his parents. Chicken farming was also prominent, and the knowledge of what goes on in the community is also important to Waymer. The interview brought out the fact that the deer population is somewhat manufactured by outside forces, which makes farming all the more difficult. |
Citation | Interview with Adam Waymer by Stella Smalls, 12 June 2011 U-0724, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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