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Interview no. | U-0675 |
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 | Bowder, Alvin Zack, 1922- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1922 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | This interview was organized around several topics: Bowder was born 1922 North Carolina, then moved to Detroit, Mich. and lived there for seven years; 1929 stock market failed; came back to North Carolina and worked on the farm; his mother taught him to farm; father died when he was four years old; grandfathers' information; in 1949, Bowder built his house; his stepfather purchased 21 acres of land when they moved to North Carolina; description of where he lived; mother purchased the land; people in the community worked at the mill; Bowder started working at the age of 8; mother was a housewife; the relationship between whites and blacks; discrimination; the black community got along with white community; he did not inherit land from his parents; he paid cash for his land; he voted in 1946; civil rights movement; the importance of education; he was a cook in the United States Navy and life was different when he came back; the Great Depression. |
Citation | Interview with Alvin Jack Bowder by Sawde Salifou, 31 May 2011 U-0675, 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. | U0675_Audio |