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Interview no. | U-0753 |
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 | 4 June 2011 |
Interviewee | King, Hazel Salters. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Hazel King's interview was very interesting in that it demonstrates a family that utilized a truly diversified economic plan in that her family owned land, sharecropped, and held a public works job. Her family also appears to have been rather successful utilizing this economic diversification in that her family was the first, African American family in the unincorporated community of Eldorendo, Ga. to have many of the large consumer goods such as a car, television, and electricity. King's interview also demonstrates the intergenerational dynamics within a single family. King then spoke about her family's consumerism such as being the first African American in that community to own a car, telephone, and television. She was able to reconstruct her community with the African American farm families that lived in Eldorendo, Ga. during her youth. |
Citation | Interview with Hazel King by Eric Jonas Stephens, 4 June 2011 U-0753, 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. | U0753_Audio |