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Interview no. | U-0893 |
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 | 20 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Conner, Alexander, 1928- |
Interviewee occupation |
Dental assistants Military Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1928 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hand, Shane. |
Abstract | The interview centered on the following themes: farming, family, racism, education, and the Civil Rights Movement. Topics include: family background; inheriting the land; grandfather making baskets and chairs for supplemental income; school in Tennessee; sister moves to Chicago; college education; Fort Bragg; the South and Jim Crow; canning and food preservation; race relations; walking to town; hired labor on the family farm; black farmers losing their land; promissory notes; WPA; civil rights and the economy; discrimination; walking to school; printing civil rights literature; role of the church; Rev George Lee; in Germany with the military; returning to the United States from Germany; responding to discrimination; voting and the black community; banks; moving back to Mississippi in 1990; sovereignty commission; the underground operation and the black masons; the food pantries of Chicago and selling expired products to blacks; mathematics; hope for the future?; final thoughts. |
Citation | Interview with Alexander Conner by Shane Hand, 20 June 2012 U-0893, 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. | U0893_Audio |