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Interview no. | U-0770 |
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 | 22 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Enoch, Richard, 1944- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1944 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | The interview of Mr. Enoch took place at a picnic table outside his home, which his wife characterized as his office. Mr. Enoch was actively farming at the time of the interview, and it took place late on a Sunday afternoon (the only available time he had since he was working on his tobacco, and strawberries, six days a week). The Enoch family has been farming the same land since his ancestors settled there during the 1820s (a white man who reportedly moved there to live with his Native American wife). According to Mr. Enoch his genealogy includes persons of African, European, and Native American ancestry. Topics included: the family's acquisition of the land, the surrounding community, Crossroad Church in Mebane, NC, North Carolina A&T, tenant farmers, Cone's Mill in Haw River, NC, textile mills, Farmers Insurance Agency, and racial intimidation. |
Citation | Interview with Richard Enoch by Michael Verville, 22 May 2011 U-0770, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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