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Interview no. | U-0684 |
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 | 28 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Steele, Alfred Napoleon, 1954- |
Interviewee occupation | Railroad employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1954 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Salifou, Sawde, 1980- |
Abstract | Alfred Steele began the interview with a family history; his mother was a housewife and his father worked in a warehouse and on a farm which he owned in Rockingham, N.C.; inheritance of the land, which was 16 acres and which the family owned and lived on for three generations; description of the house where he grew up, which his parents built; people in the community often worked two jobs to supplement income; factoring and farming jobs; needing credit to purchase seed and fertilizer; Steele inherited the land from his mother and also worked in railroad; the importance of being a landowner; he went to high school in the military; descriptions of his average day as a child and the community he grew up in, including a small community store; he was in military for four years; his father was involved in church; limited opportunities in his area. |
Citation | Interview with Alfred Napoleon Steele by Sawde Salifou, 28 May 2011 U-0684, 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. | U0684_Audio |