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Interview no. | U-0847 |
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 | 6 July 2012 |
Interviewee | Hunter, Adrienne. |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Civic leaders |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around Ms. Hunter's experiences applying for FSA youth loans, family farm history, and the relationship between Lincoln University extension and Black farm owners in the Missouri Bootheel. Topics include: Produce farming; Farm Service Agency youth loans; Lincoln University Cooperative Extension; Drought; Farm cooperatives; GRAND (Great Rivers Alliance Nature Resource District; Migration from Arkansas; Discrimination against Black farm owners; Lincoln University Small Farm Program; Importance of training children at a young age for farming or agriculture; Education; Non-agricultural uses of land; La Forge Resettlement Project; |
Citation | Interview with Adrienne Hunter by Heidi Dodson, 6 July 2012 U-0847, 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. | U0847_Audio |