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Interview no. | U-0826 |
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 | 13 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Burkett, Melvin, 1948- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Military |
Interviewee DOB | 1948 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | Melvin Burkett was born into a farming family but does not farm for a living, despite the fact he has always grown crops. This interview supplements several other interviews done in the community (Ben Burkett, Pen Travis, Joe Barnes, Billy Myers, and others) to complete some parts of the story that have been told by other individuals. Substantively, the interview is organized around Mr. Burkett's experience growing up on a farm and in a large land-owning community and the opportunities that upbringing provided him and later generations. |
Citation | Interview with Melvin Burkett by Kelly Davila, 13 June 2012 U-0826, 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. | U0826_Audio |