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Interview no. | U-0857 |
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 | 21 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Tarver, Debra, 1957- |
Interviewee occupation |
Secretaries Administrative assistants |
Interviewee DOB | 1957 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around Debra Robinson Tarver's memory of her father and grandfather's farm, Pinhook community activities, school integration, and the flooding of Pinhook. Topics include: Country stores; Farming; Pinhook school; School desegregation; Rural school buses; Fish fries; East Prairie, MO; Bird's Point-New Madrid Floodway; Flooding; Army Corps of Engineers levee blast, May 2011; Headstart; 4-H; Racial exclusion from cheerleading; Working on the harvest (seasonal labor migrations); Day labor; Sharecroppers; Christian Liberty District Association; Housing discrimination; Pinhook incorporation. |
Citation | Interview with Debra Tarver by Heidi Dodson, 21 June 2012 U-0857, 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. | U0857_Audio |