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Interview no. | U-0965 |
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 | 1 June 2012 |
Interviewee |
Goines, Earnest, 1947- Goines, Thomas, 1973- |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Construction workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1947; 1973 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Teague, Riva Brown. |
Abstract | The interview focused on land the Goines' own (35-40 acres) and land their family members own that they use (about 45 acres). All the acreage primarily is used for raising cattle, hogs and goats. Earnest, 65, and son Thomas, 38, also bale hay and grind feed for the animals. Topics include Earnest growing up sharecropping on black-owned land and aspiring to purchase his own land, the Freedom Riders using black-owned land in Sharon as a safe haven during the civil rights movement, a boycott that put a white store owner out of business, the Goines' family grocery store, the elder Goines' dealings with the Farmers Home Administration, hauling wood to help pay for his children's education and plans to increase the amount of land and cattle the family owns. |
Citation | Interview with Earnest Goines and Thomas Goines by Riva Brown Teague, 1 June 2012 U-0965, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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