From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

African American Farmers Oral History Project (Kentucky)

The following information comes from the description in the SPOKE Database. "This project contains interviews concerning the experiences of African American farmers and their families in Kentucky. Topics include sharecropping, tobacco, cattle, women's roles on the farm, farm techniques, dairy farming, tenant farming, education, segregation."

*For more information on African American farmers in Kentucky see "Upside down from the word go": Kentucky's black farmers speak out on the issue of land loss (thesis) by W. J. Wright.

Subject

Oral History Collections

Education and Educators

Farms, Farming, Farmers

Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, Smoking

Coverage

Kentucky

External Digital Object Link

Read about the African American farmers oral history interviews available at the University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, item records are in the SPOKE Database.

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NKAA Source: "Upside down from the word go" : Kentucky's black farmers speak out on the issue of land loss (thesis)

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Cite This NKAA Entry:

“African American Farmers Oral History Project (Kentucky),” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed July 27, 2024, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/index.php/items/show/2971.

Last modified: 2018-08-21 19:28:07