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Interview no. | U-0970 |
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 | Newkirk, John Thomas, 1936- |
Interviewee occupation |
Contractors Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1936 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | This interview includes information about the 11 acres of farm land the interviewee's father owned in the Catahoula community in Hancock County, MS. The interviewee's father came from North Carolina to Mississippi to work in the turpentine industry. Other topics include the interviewee's father serving as pastor of multiple churches in Hancock County and nearby Pearl River County, including Little Providence Baptist Church in the Catahoula community; the Newkirk family moving on farm land the interviewee's uncle, Willie T. Sellers, owned (and farmed); Sellers selling land to multiple families who were forced to leave their property because of the NASA buffer zone; and the interviewee building many of the homes owned by black families in the Catahoula community today. |
Citation | Interview with John Thomas Newkirk by Riva Brown Teague, 7 July 2012 U-0970, 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. | U0970_Audio |