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Interview no. | U-0782 |
Restrictions | Permission of interviewee/interviewer required to quote from interview. |
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 | 21 May 2011 |
Interviewee |
Richmond, Reefus. Morris, Wilma Richmond. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown; Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | Although the interview began with Ms. Richmond, it was clear that she was not feeling well, and the questions were then directed toward her daughter. Ms. Richmond grew up on her parents’ 110 acre farm in north Durham County, NC. Ms. Morris shared what she knew of her mother's experiences growing up on the farm, though she knew little about the operation of the farm. We then discussed her life, the mostly black neighborhood in which she grew up in Durham, Walltown, the families' transition to a less developed rural community on Fayetteville Rd., and the fact that many persons in the family built and owned their own homes. Topics included: tobacco, land transfer, Masons, Camp Butner, NC, Walltown neighborhood in Durham, NC, integration at UNC, black tradespersons, city and county schools in Durham, NC, Hillside High School, city buses, and desegregation in Durham, NC schools. |
Citation | Interview with Reefus Richmond and Wilma Richmond Morris by Michael Verville, 21 May 2011 U-0782, 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. | U0782_Audio |