Interview with Jessie Snardon, August 13, 1992

Partial Transcript: This is an oral history interview, um, with Jessie Snardon?

Segment Synopsis: Snardon discusses her childhood growing up on a sharecropping farm.

Keywords: Boyd Bell; Charlie Young farm; Chickens; Discipline; Family; Farming; Jessie Bell; Jessie Mae Bell; Jessie Snardon; Logan County (Ky.); Lucy Bell; Sharecroppers; Youth

Subjects: African American farmers.; African Americans--Social life and customs; Agriculture

Partial Transcript: Were they strongly religious?

Segment Synopsis: Snardon describes her family's religious beliefs and her childhood on the farm.

Keywords: Barley crops; Black teachers; Cooking; Family; House wife; Kingsbury Baptist Church; Regional Transportation Authority; Schools; Sharecroppers; Tobacco crops; Water wells; Wheat crops

Subjects: African American families; African American farmers; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Social life and customs

Partial Transcript: Did you learn a lot of cooking from your mother?

Segment Synopsis: Snardon describes the farm work expected of girls, and later her own marriage and children.

Keywords: Baking; Community; Donald Snardon; Dr. Young; Electricians; Gardening; Marriage; Schools; Sharecroppers; Teachers; Victor Snardon; White doctors

Subjects: African American families; African American farmers; African Americans--Social life and customs; Agriculture

Partial Transcript: When you were married, um, where--how did our--where did you live first?

Segment Synopsis: Snardon discusses the purchase of their home following her marriage.

Keywords: Churches; Community; Farmhouses; Farming; Health; Land ownership; Loans; Sharecroppers

Subjects: African American Christians; African American families; African American farmers; African Americans--Economic conditions; African Americans--Social life and customs; Agriculture

Partial Transcript: --(inaudible)--I guess we've been wonderfully blessed.

Segment Synopsis: Snardon discusses her involvement in the church community and the support she receives in her community.

Keywords: Alcohol abuse; Bible study; Church community; Clubs; Communication; Corn crops; Drug abuse; Education; Factory; Farming; Home ownership; Inheritance; Money; Pesticides; Schools; Soybeans; Sunday school; Teen pregnancy; Tobacco crops; Wheat; Youth

Subjects: African American farmers; African Americans--Economic conditions; African Americans--Religion; African Americans--Social life and customs