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Interview no. | U-0966 |
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 | 7 July 2012 |
Interviewee | Hampton, Helen Gertrude Sellers, 1924- |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1924 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview focused on the approximately 100 acres the interviewee said the Seller family owned in the Catahoula community in Hancock County. Her grandfather moved from North Carolina to Mississippi when her father was 12 years old. The Sellers family purchased land used for farming cotton, cattle, sheep, corn, etc. The interviewee discussed her father's work in the turpentine industry; her childhood growing up on the farm (she calls herself a "champion cotton picker" who also picked other people's cotton to buy her own school clothes and shoes); her father leaving the farm to work at the Navy base in Gulfport, MS, during World War II; her father being the first person to own a car in the community (late 1930s); her parents owning a barroom and liquor store; and her father selling a sizeable portion of his farm land to black families who had to move off land they owned because of the NASA buffer zone. The interviewee also discussed the importance of education as well as using what you have to help others in their time of need. The interviewee said that's what her father did when he sold some of his land. |
Citation | Interview with Helen Gertrude Sellers Hampton by Riva Brown Teague, 7 July 2012 U-0966, 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. | U0966_Audio |