Norman, Barbara James, interviewee Cox, Anna-Lisa, interviewer Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor sound recording-nonmusical spoken word still image Sound recordings. Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020. Interviews. Oral histories. Personal narratives. miu 2020 monographic 2020-01-15. eng

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2 sound recordings (01:51:46) : digital, wav 1 photograph : digital, pdf, color 4 manuscripts : digital, pdf Interview with Barbara Norman about her experiences growing up on and working a multigenerational Black farm in Michigan. She discusses her family's migration from Mississippi, buying land during the Great Depression, diversity in Covert, the importance of owning land, and growing blueberries. Barbara speaks about her identity as a Black woman, hunting, the importance of education, horseback riding, organic-no-till farming, and working with youth on her farm. She also describes her efforts setting up local farmers to support the government's fresh fruit and vegetable programs and creating a farmers' market. Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Recorded in the Van Buren United Civic Organization building in Covert, Michigan, January 15, 2020. Multigenerational African-Descended Farmers of the Midwest: Surviving Erasure: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2019-2021 (AFC 2019/028:06060), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Barbara Norman won the USDA's National Small Farmer of the Year award in 2003. She also serves as president for the Van Buren United Civic Organization. To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers. In English. n-us-mi Norman, Barbara James Interviews African American farmers Interviews African American farmers Michigan African American farmers Middle West African American children Education African Americans Employment African American businesspeople Interviews Agriculture Middle West Farm life Middle West Employees Training of Family-owned business enterprises Women farmers Blueberries Land tenure Farm ownership Horseback riding Organic farming Community-supported agriculture Farmers' markets Local foods Sustainable agriculture Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2019028.afc2019028_06060_sr01 (DLC) 2021655282 AFC 2019/028 2021655316 hdl:loc.afc/afc2019028.afc2019028_06060_sr01 dacs DLC 220113 20250607112152.4 22382330 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng