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Interview no. | U-0758 |
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 | 9 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Sanders, J.C., 1928- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | J.C. Sanders was born in 1928 and his father, Sam Sanders, worked with his father-in-law, Matt Miller, who reportedly owned over 600 acres of land in Baker County, Ga. After leaving home, Sanders continued to sharecrop, giving it up in 1951 when he went to Haynes City, Fla. to pick fruit until he was called for service in Japan in 1952. His interview provides an interesting intra-familial discourse between landowning and non-landowning members. In particular, Sanders' recollection of his grandfather is totally different from the narrative provided by his siblings (Cleveland Sanders and Ella Mae Flanders) as well as neighbors such as Elvis Moore. Sanders has a wonderful memory and was able to remember events that happened in the mid to late 1930s. |
Citation | Interview with J.C. Sanders by Eric Jonas Stephens, 9 June 2011 U-0758, 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. | U0758_Audio |