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Interview no. | U-0836 |
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 | Stewart, Norah, 1952- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | The interview was conducted in Mr. Stewart's home. We began by asking how his family acquired the land, and how that landownership gave his family some favor among whites in the community. He mentions he and his siblings were unable to finish school because of farming, but appreciates the work ethic that it instilled in them. He is sorrowful that the land will likely be leaving the family after he is gone because all of the subsequent generation was not raised on the farm and has no connection to the land. |
Citation | Interview with Norah Stewart by Kelly Davila, 11 June 2012 U-0836, 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. | U0836_Audio |