Taylor, Daniel 2023-01-07
The interview details Mr. Taylor’s career in education and farming. It also provides details about his involvement in the American Ag Movement and reflects on the ways that the movement organized. It provides a litany of stories about the movement’s Tractorcades.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Daniel Taylor
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: January 7, 2023
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: Zachary Hernandez
Length: 01:45:08 (1 hour 45 minutes)
Abstract
Introduction and background information; Family history and childhood on the family farm; Acquiring and growing his own farm and gin; Adjusting to farming in the South Plains; changes in agriculture technology; Hearing about the American Agriculture Movement; Farmers Home Administration; the 1979 Tractorcade; Reaching Washington D.C.; Goals and outcomes of the Tractorcade; thoughts on activism; The Lubbock Tractorcade; How farming has changed and farming in the present; how the American Ag movement impacted him; Closing discussion
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/374399 >
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