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| Interview no. | U-0780 |
| 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 | 26 May 2011 |
| Interviewee | Lyon, John, 1933- |
| Interviewee occupation | Fire fighters |
| Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
| Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
| Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
| Abstract | Mr. Lyon's interview took place at his home in Durham, NC. He showed me around the house before, during, and after the interview; he showed me his cab and explained how he came to own a cab company after he retired from the fire department, showed me his assorted photos, degrees and certificates in his office and his den, and he showed he an enlarged copy of an article about his enrollment as the first African American student at Gaston Technical Institute in Gaston County, NC. Topics included: his family genealogy, sharecropping, The Downey family of Chatham and Durham county, tobacco, land transaction, WWII, Merrick-Moore school in Durham, NC, Scott-King Rd., black-white relations in rural Durham County, tobacco market, book rent, desegregation at Gaston County Technical Institute, desegregation of Durham City Fire Department, first black fire chief and captains, Durham Mayor Chester Jenkins, higher education, Durham County Agricultural Extension Agent, and Lyon's Farm subdivision in Durham County. |
| Citation | Interview with John Lyon by Michael Verville, 26 May 2011 U-0780, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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