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Interview no. | U-0854 |
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 | 4 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Robinson, Twan, 1966- |
Interviewee occupation | Social workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1966 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around her family's migration from Mississippi to Tennessee to Missouri, the family farm and Pinhook community institutions and residents. Topics include: Migration; FHA housing; housing and land for day laborers; Penermon, MO; Christian Liberty District Association, local churches; Jim Robinson Sr. and Jr.'s roles as community leaders; East Prairie; and Black farm owners. |
Citation | Interview with Twan Robinson by Heidi Dodson, 4 June 2012 U-0854, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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