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Interview no. | U-0748 |
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 | 29 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Wells, Wanda Michelle, 1962- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1962 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Wanda M. Wells is the youngest of four siblings born to Joyce Wells-Wilson and Benjamin Franklin Wells. She was born 18 September 1962 in Bainbridge, Ga. She has spent a majority of her life on the same farmland she was raised on as a child as well as in the same house her father help built once the land was purchased. This interview consisted of several different facets of information which is pertinent to the overall goal of the Breaking New Ground Project. All of the information collected from Wells 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: Wells being able to provide some information about the twenty acres of farmland her mother and father purchased; personal history; being able to create a family tree; discussing what kind of crops were planted; where some of the crops were sold; labor division among the siblings; family's interaction with County Extension Agent; race relations with blacks and whites; information she remembers about her childhood; the change integration brought on her as well as her community; church attendance; providing advice to live by; the current usage of her family's farmland. |
Citation | Interview with Wanda Wells by Bridget Stephens, 29 June 2011 U-0748, 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. | U0748_Audio |