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Interview no. | U-0817 |
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 | 10 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Mims, Genderella, 1933- |
Interviewee occupation | Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Copeland, Allen. |
Abstract | This interview was organized around black land ownership and its effects on Mrs. Genderella Mims life and experiences. Miss. Mims talks about a variety of different subject: family history; her own personal history; everyday life on the farm; chores she and her siblings had to do; churning butter; jarring fruit and vegetables; friends and relatives in the community; hog killings; the role her parent's plaid in the church; church in general; education of her parents and what it meant to them; her education and siblings education; race relationships; class relationships; working the fields of their own personal and gather crops for their own consumption. |
Citation | Interview with Genderella Mims by Allen Copeland, 10 June 2012 U-0817, 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. | U0817_Audio |