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Interview no. | U-0875 |
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 | 23 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Davis, Monica, 1956- |
Interviewee occupation |
Authors Journalists Non-profit organization employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1956 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Flewellen, Ayana Aisha. |
Abstract | This interview centered on the Wilhite family who owned 600 acres of land in late 19th century around 1870-74 in Orangeburg, Kentucky which is located in Divisse County. The original owner of the land was Monica Davis's great-grandfather Noel Wilhite. Noel Wilhite was an ex slave who acquired his land after the Civil War. The Wilhite family was very “reclusive” and acted as such as a means of self preservation and security. This interview covers not only the lost of land by the Wilhite family, who currently is still in ownership of 80 acres of the original plot, but the general lost of land by Black farmers in this particular part of Kentucky with in-depth details about other black landowners in the area. Topics include: land ownership, definition of family, class and social difference among whites and blacks, USDA, issues of land lost, means of survival and control, WW1 and WW2 effect on Black families, recollections of racism of the time, institutionalized forms of racism. |
Citation | Interview with Monica Davis by Ayana Flewellen, 23 May 2012 U-0875, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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