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Interview no. | U-0788 |
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 | 23 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Whitmore, Elwood, 1923- |
Interviewee occupation |
Carpenters Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1923 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | At the time of the interview Mr. Whitmore was 88 years of age and actively farming a garden plot (1-2 acres in size) less than a mile from his home. I first met Mr. Whitmore at his garden before returning to his house where I spoke with him about his time on the land, his family's involvement in farming, storekeeping, and the operation of a sawmill. Topics included: clearing fields, corn shuckings, wheat thrashings, and hog killings, the family's first automobile, the introduction of electricity and telephones, rural schools for black and Native American children, purchase and operation of a sawmill, Oddfellows, the effect of WWII, and the benefits of farm ownership. |
Citation | Interview with Elwood Whitmore by Michael Verville, 23 May 2011 U-0788, 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. | U0788_Audio |