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Interview no. | U-0969 |
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 | 1 June 2012 |
Interviewee |
McCullough, J.L., 1922- McCullough, Kattie G. |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1922; Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | The interviewed focused on McCullough's education and career; the 40 acres McCullough's grandfather, a former slave, purchased; the 250 acres his father purchased; and the 135 acres McCullough and his wife, Kattie, purchased years later. Interview topics include foreclosed, white-owned land that the Federal Land Bank sold to blacks; his parents' involvement with county agents and home demonstration agents; his stints in cities and states such as Alabama, Chicago, Detroit and New Jersey; his 70-day stint in the Navy; why he returned to Mississippi to get into the cattle and soybean business; being fired from his teaching job because of his and his parents’ involvement with the civil rights movement; relationships with the Farmers Home Administration; and how he helped black farm owners after he became a county supervisor. |
Citation | Interview with J.L. MucCullough by Riva Brown Teague, 1 June 2012 U-0969, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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