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Interview no. | U-0783 |
Restrictions | Permission from interviewee required for quotation. |
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 | 6 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Rogers, Samuel, 1936- |
Interviewee occupation | Government employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1936 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | My interview with Mr. Rogers took place outside Durham Regent, the retirement community in which he lives. His grandfather and father farmed the same land in northern Durham County since at least the 1890s. The interview took place in public areas which may have affected Mr. Rogers's often brief answers. He grew up on the family farm; however, after spending a number of years in the military, he went to work for the USDA as a poultry inspector until his retirement in the early 1980s. Topics included: family history, Durham County, church involvement, the family home place, tobacco faming and markets, education, Rogers Grove Baptist Church, 4-H, black schools in Durham County (Rock Knolls, Mill Grove, Merrick-Moore), pesticides for tobacco worms, USDA, poultry inspection, Gold Kist Poultry. |
Citation | Interview with Samuel Rogers by Michael Verville, 6 June 2011 U-0783, 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. | U0783_Audio |