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Interview no. | U-0950 |
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 | Collins, Stanley, 1959- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Government employees Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1959 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smith, Angela. |
Abstract | Stanley Collins is the Director of Field Operations at the FSA/Extension Office of Marion County, MS in the city of Columbia. His father's family was made up of lifelong farmers, and he grew up farming, but with little opportunity presented to continue working the land, he went into farming education. As of the time of the interview, he had worked with the FSA for nearly 30 years. |
Citation | Interview with Stanley Collins by Angela Smith, 20 June 2012 U-0950, 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. | U0950_Audio |