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Interview no. | U-0660 |
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 | McCaskill, Janawa, 1970- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Physical Therapists |
Interviewee DOB | 1970 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Ferguson, Robert Hunt. |
Abstract | Mr. McCaskill spoke about his childhood growing up on a farm near Greenwood, Miss., in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the youngest of nine children growing up and recalled the type of work he did growing up on the farm and the types of ideals - hard work, faith, cooperation, responsibility, having dreams - his father instilled in him through farm work. Mr. McCaskill had very interesting viewpoints about life in the country - he believes that living in the country and operating a farm instills important life lessons and values that many people currently are not exposed to. Though Mr. McCaskill is relatively young compared to other farmers this project focuses on, I think he is a good source for explaining the social and cultural lessons African Americans in the second half of the twentieth century learned growing up on rural farms. Mr. McCaskill also highlighted the cooperative nature of black farmers in the rural South and their bartering system. |
Citation | Interview with Janawa McCaskill by Robert H. Ferguson, 29 June 2011 U-0660, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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