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Interview no. | U-0933 |
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 | 14 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Sudduth, Lindsey, 1915- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1915 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Randolph, Justin. |
Abstract | This interview dealt with the accepted family history and farm life of Lindsey Sudduth, a retired black farm owner living in rural Kennedy, Alabama. Topics of this interview include: Sudduth’s birth in 1915, his young life on the family farm in the black Kingville community of Lamar County, his marriage to Ovella Bobo in 1933 and their sixty-plus years of marriage, his education at the small community's Center School, his work experience on the family farm from youth to 1958, when he also worked inside local saw mills. In the way of family history, Sudduth remembered very little: His mother (Lizzie Sudduth) came from the Kingville community as his father (Byrd Sudduth) did, and family landownership began with his father's purchase of land from a local Judge Johnson in the 1940s. On the community, Sudduth remembered: his family always attended the all-black New Hope Church, the occasion of sickness in the community and doctors, the extension of credit to black farmers, the presence of any law enforcement in his rural locale. |
Citation | Interview with Lindsey Sudduth by Justin Randolph, 14 June 2012 U-0933, 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. | U0933_Audio |