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Interview no. | U-0977 |
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 | 6 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Webster, Moses, 1941- |
Interviewee occupation | Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1941 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | Topics discussed during this interview include the interviewee's four uncles who purchased 460 acres from a white man in Pocahontas (through the Federal Land Bank) around the late 1940s and divided it between them. One of his uncles later sold 115 acres to the interviewee's father, a former sharecropper who also worked in construction. The interviewee's mother had white customers she sold produce to, and they gave her clothes and other items for the children. Of the 115 acres, about 105 acres are still in the family. His parents, some of his siblings and other family members live on the property. The rest is primarily used for growing produce and raising cattle. He lives across the street on about 3 acres he purchased later in life. Other topics include his leaving the farm to become independent and later moving to Chicago, partly because of the turmoil in the area during the civil rights movement and to seek better employment opportunities. |
Citation | Interview with Moses Webster by Riva Brown Teague, 6 June 2012 U-0977, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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