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Interview no. | U-0763 |
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 | Wells, Shirley P. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Mrs. Shirley Wells comes from a family that has farmed in the Magnolia community for over 120 years. Mrs. Wells was an integral part of her family's farm and also work for other larger farmers growing up, both black and white. Mrs. Wells also mentioned the perceived differences between working for large white and large black landowners in her community. Mrs. Wells’ interview provides the reader with an introspective view of landowners, sharecroppers, and farm wage laborers. Mrs. Wells also poignantly speaks to the changes that accompanied integration for her and her community. Mrs. Wells was unsure of many of the basics of the farming operation. |
Citation | Interview with Shirley P. Wells by Jonas Stephens, 29 June 2011 U-0763, 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. | U0763_Audio |