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Interview no. | U-0878 |
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 | 29 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Hunter, Nanette, 1960- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Sales personnel Managers |
Interviewee DOB | 1960 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Flewellen, Ayana Aisha. |
Abstract | This interview centered on Nanette Hunter's experiences growing up in Montgomery County Maryland. Ms. Hunter was born in 1960 and remembers the most about her childhood in a predominantly black community in Boyds, Maryland known by the black population as “Tuner Town.” Ms. Hunter's maternal side of the family owned land in Boyds, Maryland. Ms. Hunter’s mother purchased land from family and settled in Boyds, Maryland on a piece of land that her great-great grandmother, Emma Tuner, had been deeded by her employers the Jameson family, a white family in the Poolesville, Maryland area. Ms. Hunter speaks about her time in Boyds, Maryland, other families and farm land in the area, how the Boyds community has changed overtime, land loss within her family and the value she and her now deceased mother placed on land ownership, subsistence, and preservation. Topics include: farming, migration into Washington DC, church, community functions, definitions of community, definitions of family, busing, racial relationships, segregated high schools, importance of religion, tourism, museum, preservation; |
Citation | Interview with Nanette Hunter by Ayana Aisha Flewellen, 29 May 2012 U-0878, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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