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Interview no. | U-0876 |
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 | 20 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Effland, Anne, 1957- |
Interviewee occupation |
Sociologists Historians Government employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1957 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Flewellen, Ayana Aisha. |
Abstract | This interview centered on Anne Effland, born in 1957, and her experience working as a woman in the United States Department of Agriculture during the 1990s. She did not grow up on a farm, however her grandparents did farm and own land. Effland did, however spend her childhood living in a farming community in rural Fredrick, Maryland. Effland speaks about having no interactions with black communities in the area and also speaks about the urban 4H club she participated in. The interview continues with Effland speaking about her obtaining her job at the USDA and her interactions with black farmers. Particular detail is given to Effland's work with rural minority farmers and the 1997 Civil Rights Review Team. Effland's research with the Civil Rights Review Team was Programs and Outreach. Topics include: farming, USDA, Pigford, USDA Civil Rights Review Team, Black Farm Lawsuits, racial relationships, segregated high schools, importance of religion, tourism, museum, preservation; |
Citation | Interview with Anne Effland by Ayan Aisha Flewellen, 20 June 2012 U-0876, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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