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| Interview no. | U-0725 |
| 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 | 2 June 2011 |
| Interviewee | Waymer, Mary L. |
| Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
| Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
| Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
| Interviewer | Smalls, Stella. |
| Abstract | The interview was done to show the differences between black sharecroppers and black landowners. Mary L. Waymer recalls that as a young child, she learned to do chores, which were common for sharecropping families. Her story is another female account of farm life but from a sharecropper's daughter's point of view. The interview depicts some of her siblings as being similar to other black children who left the farm to escape the hardship of farm life. Other topics discussed were the addition of a stepmother to her family after the death of her biological mother. It leads to several details about Waymer's life history, the life of her sibling, and the crops that were planted on the farm. |
| Citation | Interview with Mary L. Waymer by Stella Smalls, 2 June 2011 U-0725, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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