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Interview no. | U-0686 |
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 | Strong, Catherine, 1934- |
Interviewee occupation | Managers |
Interviewee DOB | 1934 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | This interview with Catherine Strong was organized around several topics: family history; moving from South Carolina to High Point, N.C.; Strong's father was a sharecropper; the land and the description of the house where she grew up; the Great Depression and how it affected the family; her grandfather lost his land; farming as a way of life; moving to the city for job opportunities; she inherited land from her grandfather; voting rights; education; descriptions of the community in North Carolina, discrimination, and how they had fun. |
Citation | Interview with Catherine Strong by Sawde Salifou, 11 June 2011 U-0686, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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