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Object Description
| Interview no. | U-0779 |
| Restrictions | Closed. No release form received. |
| 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 | 17 August 2011 |
| Interviewee |
Lewis, Hazel, 1926- Cooper, Hattie, 1934- Richardson, Denise. |
| Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Counselors Accountants Real estate agents Unknown |
| Interviewee DOB | 1926; 1934; unknown |
| Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
| Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
| Abstract | Ms. Lewis, Ms. Cooper, and Ms. Richardson are descendants of the same family of farmers located near Nashville, NC, representing three generations. Ms. Lewis and Ms. Cooper grew up on the family farm, and Ms. Richardson grew up near Detroit, MI, and as an adult has moved to Nashville, NC. Her father is Ms. Lewis's brother, who is a retired college professor. The home in which Ms. Richardson now lives is the family home which was a part of the farm, and has been owned by the family since the 1930s. Today the farm land is rented to other farmers. Topics included: farming, family history, Nashville, NC, Nash County, segregated education, The Great Depression, and World War II. |
| Citation | Interview with Hazel Lewis, Hattie Cooper, and Denise Richardson by Michael Verville, 17 August 2011 U-0779, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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