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Interview no. | U-0907 |
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 | 7 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Wade, Daisy Harris, 1931- |
Interviewee occupation |
Civil rights activists Secretaries Radio and television employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1931 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hand, Shane. |
Abstract | The interview is organized around themes of family, farming, law, bootlegging/moonshining, education, and African American military service. Topics include: lumber industry, African American moonshining, treatment of blacks in Parchman Prison, African American educational opportunities, the railroad, black railroad porters, prohibiting blacks from drinking coca-cola, a National Guard shoot out, black white relations, moonshining poisoning in Atlanta, police raids, Hattiesburg businesses in 1940s & 1950s, African American trades, the making of the motion picture The Help, and the 1970s vote to make Hattiesburg wet. |
Citation | Interview with Daisy Harris Wade by Shane Hand, 7 June 2012 U-0907, 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. | U0907_Audio |