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Interview no. | U-0906 |
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 | 2 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Threatt, Terry, 1946- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hand, Shane. |
Abstract | The interview was organized around the following themes, which relate to Terry Threatt's memory of farming and gardening today: farming and gardening; family; discipline; and community. Topics include: Family background; working for International Harvester in Chicago; moving back to Alabama and life on the farm; acquiring the land, foreclosure, and saving the farm; the local community and race relations; education; the importance of the land and a love for farming; the Civil Rights Movement and voting; family time on Sundays; the Datcher family and farm; making sorghum syrup; making and selling moonshine; Terry Threatt's family today; and, lessons from farm life and final reflections. |
Citation | Interview with Terry Threatt by Shane Hand, 2 June 2012 U-0906, 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. | U0906_Audio |