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Interview no. | U-0905 |
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 | 11 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Shambulia, Ama, 1962- |
Interviewee occupation | Chefs |
Interviewee DOB | 1962 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hand, Shane. |
Abstract | The interview with Ama Shambulia centered on the following themes: food; health; nutrition; the earth; family; cooking; community activism; and, cooking. Topics include: family background; food and cooking as family tradition; moving to Alabama; the Black Power movement; culture shock in rural Alabama; Shambulia surprised to find rural blacks in Alabama not growing much food; gardening versus farming; introduction to Urban Ministry, R. G. Lyons, and WE Community Garden; assuming directorship of the garden; now in the fourth growing season; engaging the community; shaping the youth to be good stewards of the community; assisting seniors; response from the West End community to the ministry's initiative; official work days for volunteers; locals become inspired to grow their own gardens; youth become a greater focus or emphasis for the ministry; family plots; giving away produce to seniors; revenue; what is growing in the garden?; buying seeds and tools; the ministry's and gardens effect on Ama Shambulia; phenomenon of urban gardens; the value of freshly picked produce; and, final thoughts. |
Citation | Interview with Ama Shambulia by Shane Hand, 11 June 2012 U-0905, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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