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Interview no. | U-0957 |
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 | 13 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Oatis, Carol, 1950- |
Interviewee occupation |
Military Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1950 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Smith, Angela. |
Abstract | Carol Oatis is a farmer born and raised in Bassfield, MS. Raised by his grandmother, Oatis learned traditional organic farming techniques he still uses on small plots of land today. During the interview, Oatis expands on his knowledge of traditional farming techniques, his family's history of farming, and the history of Bassfield. He also discusses race relations and farm assistance programs of the past and present. The interview takes place in Bassfield, much of the time as the interviewer tours the area with Oatis. They are joined by observer Kelly Davila. |
Citation | Interview with Carol Oatis by Angela Smith, 13 June 2012 U-0957, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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