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Interview with Mrs. Emma Johnson
General Topic of Interview: Farming in the Mississippi Delta
Date: 5 November, 2008
Location: Lula, Mississippi, USA
Narrator: Mrs. Emma Johnson
Interviewer: Max Paschall
Transcriber: Unknown
Biographical Information:
Mrs. Emma Johnson was born in Tunica County, Mississippi. She had her husband began sharecropping, eventually acquiring and running several thousand acres of farm land, and the Lula Cotton Gin. She is now the matriarch of a farming family.
Interview Information:
Mrs. Johnson discusses farming and sharecropping in the Delta. She details the chronology of her family’s farm.