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Interview no. | U-0760 |
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 | 31 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Shields, Eddie Bell, 1927- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1927 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Mrs. Eddie Bell Shields provides a good introduction into the workings and development of the rural Magnolia community begin a generation older than most of the African American farm owners that have provided oral interviews in this community. Mrs. Eddie Bell Shields speaks about her father leaving Wilmington, North Carolina; however, I did not ask if this migration to Southwest Georgia was the result of the Wilmington Race Riot (Massacre) of the late 1898. She speaks about not knowing any of older members of her paternal family during the first five minutes of the recording. In her back yard Mrs. Eddie Bell Shields also possesses the reconstituted log cabin that her grandmother Mrs. Martha Philips lived in for the majority of her life. |
Citation | Interview with Eddie Bell Shields by Jonas Stephens, 31 May 2011 U-0760, 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. | U0760_Audio |