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| Interview no. | U-0825 |
| 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 | 5 June 2012 |
| Interviewee | Bolton, Solomon, 1946- |
| Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Sawmill employees |
| Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
| Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
| Interviewer | Davila, Kelly. |
| Abstract | This is the second of four consecutive interviews lined up by Mr. Roger Jones in his home on 5 June 2012. Beginning with a discussion of his home and community in Beaumont, MS where he grew up on a farm, Mr. Bolton continues through his working life and his return to the farm after retirement as a reliable source of income. |
| Citation | Interview with Solomon Bolton by Kelly Davila, 5 June 2012 U-0825, 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. | U0825_Audio |
