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Interview no. | U-0832 |
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 | 6 July 2012 |
Interviewee | McLin, Katrina. |
Interviewee occupation |
Civic leaders Grant writers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
Abstract | Katrina McLin works for the extension service in Jackson, MS through Alcorn State University. Previously, she has worked with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives on multiple projects. This interview considers the loss of land from multiple perspectives and considers why and how land loss came to be such a large problem among minority land owners in the South. It also covers the extent of some programs designed to combat this process. Furthermore, we discuss difficulties surrounding the relationship between government agencies (and other agencies of authority) and minority farmers, how a stigma arose between them, and what has been done to try to ease it. |
Citation | Interview with Katrina McLin by Kelly Davila, 6 July 2012 U-0832, 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. | U0832_Audio |