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Interview no. | U-0678 |
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 | 11 June 2011 |
Interviewee | McDonald, Voyner, 1952- |
Interviewee occupation | Information technology professionals |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Voyner McDonald started this interview with his family history; she was born in Rockingham, N.C., then moved to New Jersey when she was 13 years old; her grandfather purchased 9 acres of land for $350; family worked on the farm; five generation lived on the farm; she grew up in a white stone, 3 bedrooms house; farming as the main economy; grandmother ironed clothes for money; worship on Sundays; inherited land after her mother passed away; her first cousin is renting the house now; her uncles went into service; her mother worked with disabled children; the relationship between black and white people and the segregated community; integration of schools and discrimination; Ku Klux Klan march in the community; her childhood; grandmother and description of the day her grandmother died; the importance of acquiring land. |
Citation | Interview with Voyner McDonald by Sawde Salifou, 11 June 2011 U-0678, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | U0678_Audio |