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Interview no. | U-0737 |
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 | 30 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Flanders, Ella Mae. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Ella Mae Flanders grew up in the rural area of Baker County, Ga. with her eleven siblings. Flanders has experienced both sides of farming: one being able to work on land which belonged to her family and the life of sharecropping. This interview consisted of a minimal of information which would be pertinent to the overall goal of the Breaking New Ground Project. Some of the information collected from Flanders 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; however, a majority of the information tended to focus on sharecropping. Topics of discussion included: a small amount of information about 600 acres of farmland owned by her grandfather Matt Miller; information about her mother and father sharecropping; personal history; family history; information about where her family sharecropped at and for whom; examining land ownership between white farmers; daily activities on the farm; life after she left the farm. |
Citation | Interview with Ella Mae Flanders by Bridget Stephens, 30 May 2011 U-0737, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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