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Interview no. | U-0885 |
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 | 28 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Reese, Gwendora, 1941- |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1941 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Flewellen, Ayana Aisha. |
Abstract | This interview centered on Gwendora Reese's experience growing up in the Sugarland Forest Community; a community founded by freed Blacks after the Civil War on land acquired by Quakers who did not condone slavery. The interview begins with the Gwendora Reese discussing her childhood in the Sugarland Forest Community, being the tenth out of twelve children. Later the interview focused on Ms. Reese's paternal Great Grandfather, Patrick Hebron, and how he acquired his land as well as what he grew. Finally the interview focused on the Sugarland Ethno-history project; which is a ventured headed by Ms. Reese that is centered on the preservation of the Sugarland Forest Community history. Topics include: Civil War, Quakers, church, definitions of community, definitions of family, busing, racial relationships, segregated high schools, importance of religion, tourism, museum, preservation; |
Citation | Interview with Gwendora Reese by Ayana Aisha Flewellen, 28 May 2012 U-0885, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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