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Object Description
Interview no. | U-0734 |
Restrictions | Closed. Release form not signed. |
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 | Benton, Lucille, 1945- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1945 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Lucille Benton was born 15 January 1945 in Baker County, Ga. where she lived with her parents Jessie and Mary Long on the Perry Place. Benton did not hold back her feeling and stance pertaining to the unjust treatment of African American in general but especially in her surround area. She provided an extensive amount of information on and off the recording about the discrimination she and her husband have faced dealing with trying to sale their crops as well as obtaining supplies needed for her farm. 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 Benton 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: information concerning the discrimination of African Americans who are trying to prosper in the farming industry; personal information about her family history; discrimination of African American farm owners; life after she left her family; and a great amount of information about her purchasing of farmland; extensive discussion about black and white relations. |
Citation | Interview with Lucille Benton by Bridget Stephens, 12 June 2011 U-0734, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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