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Interview no. | U-0840 |
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 | 22 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Bankhead, Joe, 1933- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1933 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview revolve around Joe Bankhead's family migration patterns, his experience as a sharecropper, renter, and farm owner, and rural education in Mississippi County. Topics include: Sharecropping; Renting; Sharecropper highway demonstration (1939); Owen Whitfield; Rush Ridge, Dirks, and Norfolk schools; Pinhook, Missouri; FHA Loan; Importance of having a garden; Bird's Point-New Madrid Floodway; flooding; Army Corps of Engineers levee blast, May 2011 and subsequent flooding; crop insurance after the flood; Race relations in rural area compared to town; Migration from MS and AR to MO; Migration to cities; Boll weevil; Rural schools and consolidation and integration; Rural school transportation. |
Citation | Interview with Joe Bankhead by Heidi Dodson, 22 June 2012 U-0840, 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. | U0840_Audio |