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Interview no. | U-0741 |
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, Samuel B., Jr. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Samuel B. King has lived in the Magnolia Community in Georgia for the majority of his life. He has only left the two years he was drafted in the military (1967-1969). Born to the parents of Samuel B. King Sr. and Ellie Mae King, he remembers his childhood and life on the farm with his father and grandfather very well. 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 King 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: King constructing a family history beginning with his paternal grandparents: John and Polly King, then his maternal grandparents: James Franklin Greenlee and Anna J. Greenlee, then his maternal great-grandparents: Willis Greenlee and Francis Greenlee; crops which the farm yielded; how much acreage was use for certain crops; how much one could make from picking and selling a particular crop; farm loans; importance of the County Extension Agent; how the farm supported the family financially; farm responsibilities; the background of family acquiring farmland; naming other land owners in the community; the importance of the community; the current state of the farmland; the value of being an African American landowner. |
Citation | Interview with Samuel B. King, Jr. by Bridget Stephens, 4 June 2011 U-0741, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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