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Interview no. | U-0948 |
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 | 18 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Carthan, Eddie, 1949- |
Interviewee occupation |
Mayors Store owners Civic leaders |
Interviewee DOB | 1949 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smith, Angela. |
Abstract | Eddie Carthan is the former mayor of Tchula, Mississippi and former president of the Mileston Cooperative. He owns and operates a hardware store in downtown Tchula. From the time he was a child involved in the Civil Rights movement, he has dedicated his life to building a better community in his city. |
Citation | Interview with Eddie Carthan by Angela Smith, 18 June 2012 U-0948, 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. | U0948_Audio |