- Collection:
- Indices to Atlanta University Historical Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Interview with Nancy Dawson by Chris Keeve, July 1, 2023
- Date of Original:
- 2023-07-01
- Subject:
- Oral history
Food
Nineteen sixty-six, A.D.
Females
African Americans
Logan County (Ky.)
Wyandotte County (Kan.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Former Black history professor and current farmer Nancy Dawson discusses the history of agricultural practices in her native state of Kansas in addition to Illinois, Kentucky, and more. She highlights the process of doing urban farming and reconnecting African Americans with farming and land. On a personal level, she discusses her own family - particularly her great-grandmother who escaped slavery - and their relationship with the land and agriculture.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/sc.heirloom:0015_01
- Rights Holder:
- Spelman College
- Additional Rights Information:
- To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Spelman College Archivist at https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/archives with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 38:25:00
- Original Collection:
- Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
