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Interview no. | U-0880 |
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 | McCray, Michael. |
Interviewee occupation |
Authors Political activists Community organizers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Flewellen, Ayana Aisha. |
Abstract | This interview centered on Michael McCray's employment at the USDA, his termination there and later his employment with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. McCray was born 1968 in Paine Bluff, Arkansas, which is the delta area of the state and was once ranked the worst metropolitan area in America. McCray's experience in the USDA is outlined in the latter half of the interview with mention of the USDA Coalition for Minority Employees and interactions between the USDA and black farmers. Topics include: instustalized racism, discrimination the work place, USDA, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), FAMU Extension Service Agency, land-grant universities, USDA Coalition for Minority Employees, ACORN8, Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Initiative; |
Citation | Interview with Michael McCray by Ayana Aisha Flewellen, 23 May 2012 U-0880, 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. | U0880_Audio |