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Interview no. | U-0689 |
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 | 12 June 2011 |
Interviewee | Strong, Wilson, 1939- |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1939 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | This interview with Wilson Strong covered different topics: family history; moving to North Carolina; Strong's father was a sharecropper; descriptions of his children and brother; farming and the relationships between his father and the white tenant; the economy as he was growing up; how his father managed the farm to feed the family; public work to supplement the income; the importance of owning a farm as freedom; the description of an average day; his work; the principal of the school was a black leader in the community; relationships with white neighbors; discrimination; social economics of people; participation in 4-H; church; the importance of education in the family; Strong's role in the community. |
Citation | Interview with Wilson Strong by Sawde Salifou, 12 June 2011 U-0689, 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. | U0689_Audio |