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Interview no. | U-0835 |
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 | 1 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Robinson, Rob, 1940- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Truck drivers |
Interviewee DOB | 1940 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | Beginning with a discussion of how his father acquired the land which he still farms, Mr. Robinson created a narrative of recurring characters and developing morals in the context of this interview. Hitting on topics such as race, farming and debt, agribusiness, and agricultural technology, this interview is a brief history of his life from childhood in a then-rural area of Brookhaven, Mississippi to the present as a small businessman/small farmer in the area. |
Citation | Interview with Rob Robinson by Kelly Davila, 1 June 2012 U-0835, 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. | U0835_Audio |