Lawson, Bill (Farmer), interviewee Cox, Anna-Lisa, interviewer photographer Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor sound recording-nonmusical spoken word still image Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020. Digital images Sound recordings. Personal narratives. Oral histories. Interviews. miu 2019 monographic 2019-10-14. eng

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3 sound recordings (3:00:19) : digital, wav 3 manuscripts : digital, pdf 24 photograph : digital, jpg, color, black and white Bill Lawson discusses farming his family land in southern Michigan that has been in his family since before the Civil War. He also speaks about family history, land ownership, segregation, racial identity, service in the Army, moving barns onto the land, and farming methods. Includes an audio tour of the farm and barns. Recording is impeded from noise from the wind. 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 at the home of William Lawson, Van Buren, Michigan, October 14, 2019. Multigenerational African-Descended Farmers of the Midwest: Surviving Erasure: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2019-2021 (AFC 2019/028:015), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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. n-us-mi Lawson, Bill (Farmer) Interviews African American farmers Interviews African American farmers Middle West African American farmers Michigan Agriculture Middle West Farm life Middle West Organic farming Family farms Racism Colorism Fugitive slaves Freed persons Slavery United States Dairy farming Library of Congress American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2019028.afc2019028_015_sr01 (DLC) 2021655282 AFC 2019/028 2021692527 dacs DLC 220103 20250607112113.8 22371444 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng