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Interview no. | U-0828 |
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 | 11 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Fleming, Jesse, 1946- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | This interview is substantively centered on Mr. Fleming's farming past, including his mother's side of the family and their relationship with the land, how landownership affected them, and the comparison between their family and the tenant farmers who lived on their property. Additionally, the Attala County Self Help Co-op is discussed, as well as the future of farming. |
Citation | Interview with Jesse Fleming by Kelly Davila, 11 June 2012 U-0828, 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. | U0828_Audio |