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Interview no. | U-0777 |
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 | 29 August 2011 |
Interviewee |
Hodges, Carl, 1921- Hodges, Michael Terry, 1953- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Community organizers Attorneys |
Interviewee DOB | 1921; 1953 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Verville, Michael. |
Abstract | This interview is a follow-up to a previous interview with Mr. Hodges and his son Terry. The primary focus of this interview dealt with Mr. Hodges' experiences working for the Durham County Agricultural Extension Office. Topics included: The Great Depression, New Deal, WWII, New Deal, North Carolina Extension Service during Jim Crow, 4-H, introduction of 20th Century technologies. |
Citation | Interview with Carl Hodges and Michael Terry Hodges by Michael Verville, 29 August 2011 U-0777, 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. | U0777_Audio |