An interview with John & Ida Thurman / John & Ida Thurman ; Elizabeth Simmons, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview with John & Ida Thurman / John & Ida Thurman ; Elizabeth Simmons, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview of John & Ida Thurman conducted by Elizabeth Simmons for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. Topics discussed include small acreage farming; subsistence farming; African-American farmers; Pembroke Township, Kankakee County, Illinois; Illinois Cooperative; family life on the farm; land ownership patterns; barter; farming as renters; sustainable farming techniques; farmers markets; and Cooperative extension.

3 data discs (66 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.2 film cassettes : digital ; 3/8 in.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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Thurman, John Ryland, 1925-

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John Thurman was born on December 25, 1959 in Chicago. Ida was born on August 24, 1959 in Simpson County, Miss. They married in 1977, and have raised a family on a small farm near the town of St. Anne in Pembroke Township, Kankakee County, Illinois. They are African-American farmers living among a small community of black farmers in Kankakee County. They farm a small acreage, using sustainable farm practices, raising foodstuff for themselves and their family in a traditional subsistence farming ...

Illinois State Museum

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Thurman, Ida.

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University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Cooperative Extension Service

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