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Interview no. | U-0851 |
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 | Pullen,Ted, 1947- |
Interviewee occupation |
Government employees Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1947 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dodson, Heidi. |
Abstract | The main themes of the interview focus on his family's landowning and migration history, rural community activities and farm management, particularly from the 1980s to the present. Topics include: Migration from MS and AR; Farm labor and work; College education; Equipment; Financial decision-making in farming; USDA farm and housing loans; Changes in FSA personnel attitudes; Lincoln University Extension; Rural stores; Rural churches; Women's activities; Community baseball; Discrimination against Black farmers; and family relationships. |
Citation | Interview with Ted Pullen by Heidi Dodson, 6 July 2012 U-0851, 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. | U0851_Audio |