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Interview no. | U-0877 |
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 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Greene, Kenneth Jerry, 1933- |
Interviewee occupation | Technicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Flewellen, Ayana Aisha. |
Abstract | This interview centered on Kenneth Greene, known by most as Jerry. Greene was born in 1933, in Germantown, Maryland located in Montgomery County. His grandmother owned 9.3 acres of wooded land that was sold to her after the Civil War by the Gassaway family in an area referred to as “Pine Tops”. Greene's grandmother had to pay for land twice because of discriminatory practices with a bank during the time. The interview starts with Greene's discussing how his family farmed land as well as raised various animals. Greene also discusses handmade tools that black farmers used and how he was often hired out to work on other farms in the area known as “Browns Town.” The Interview continues with Greene discussing the community he grew up in and church functions. Later he details his time in the army and coming back to his small farming town after the war. The interview concludes with Greene discussing the importance in land ownership and the values he has carried with him because of his farming background. Topics include: farming, migration into Washington DC, church, community functions, Koran War, discrimination, farming tools, definitions of community, definitions of family, busing, racial relationships, Lincoln High School, importance of religion, reservation; |
Citation | Interview with Kenneth Jerry Greene by Ayana Aisha Flewellen, 7 June 2012 U-0877, 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. | U0877_Audio |