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Interview no. | U-0781 |
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 | 25 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Obie, Bernard, 1952- |
Interviewee occupation | Sales personnel |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | I met Mr. Obie at the farmers market in Roxboro, NC during a Wednesday afternoon sale. While there, I watched Mr. Obie interact with customers, other farmers, and individuals from a Christian charity there to pick up leftover produce. Mr. Obie discussed his family's long involvement in farming, their ownership of land in Person County, NC, his life experiences with agri-business and political activism, and his return to farming. Topics included: farming in Person County, NC, tobacco farming, mule driven plows, the creation of Mayo Lake, mill work, growing up on a farm, black/Native American relations in school, the emphasis of education, working in Agri-business, political activism in Topeka, Kansas, Vietnam veteran, returning to family land, and organic farming. |
Citation | Interview with Bernard Obie by Michael Verville, 25 May 2011 U-0781, 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. | U0781_Audio |