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Interview no. | U-0676 |
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 | 3 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Knotts, William Harvey. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | William Knotts started the interview by providing his family history, including information about his parents and grandfather; Knotts' grandfather owned 70 acres of land; his grandfather was raised by White and was not sure how he acquired land. Knotts talked about how cotton was a big thing in their area; inheritance of the land from his father; how farming was a hard thing to do, so people moved to the north for better job opportunity; migration to New Jersey; his father purchased a funeral home; loan from Insurance Company relationship between blacks and whites; segregation and integration of schools; parents' education, father went into service and mother was a teacher; importance of owning a land; three generations had lived on the farm; civil rights, church and the community he lived in; member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). |
Citation | Interview with William Harvey Knotts by Sawde Salifou, 3 June 2011, U-0676, 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. | U0676_Audio |