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Original negative identifier: 95/23. This image appears on page 104 (top) of American Studies (2011).

Original negative identifier: JDD 95/45

Seeds of change; Uncle Ben: Deliveries, Picky; Whiskas: Making Friends, Mookie and Pookie

Students Organizing Schools: applications, manuals, orientation, program committees

Color publicity about SAF programs such as Levante, and events such as the Sowing Seeds for Change symposium. Includes some factsheets and boycott information.

"April 27 1998: Last fall's collards have bloomed and set seed. Tomorrow, they give way to sunflowers and okra." Original/ Fragile

folder contains job numbers 0418-99, 0419-99, 0424-99

Qiu Jiafa (b.1940) is a resident of Diaoyutai Village, Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. During the Great Famine, Qiu was in middle school and his teachers led students to find oak tree seed and bark, vitex leaves and Chinese scholar tree flowers for food. All members of the production team had to participate in building the reservoir and a meal provided by the People's Commune Canteen included only two liang of rice and boiled water grass. Qiu's father starved to death in 1959. Qiu believes that the Great Famine happened partly because the cadres much exaggerated the grain production to gain political achievements, and partly because the cadres stole some grain given by the government. Commune members of the production team dared not report because they were afraid of the vengency from the cadres.

Tang Taozhen (b. 1937) is a resident of Jimingqiao Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Tang recalls how she cooked in the people's commune canteen, and how some villagers ate grass seeds because of starvation. Tang also recalls no babies were born during 1958 and 1961 because couples were working separately at different places and they were too starving.

Tang Chaogao (b. 1944) is a resident of Jimingqiao Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Tang briefly talks about how he ate tree bark and grass seeds because of starvation when running the people's commune canteen.

Liu Yuzhen (b. 1919) is a resident of Wangjiayan Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Liu recalls how her in-laws died of starvation and how some villagers were forced to stand for eating grass seeds when running the people's commune canteen.

Into the Fields: documentary award paperwork

Zeng Man (b.1929) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Zeng took part in the denunciation of landlords during the Cultural Revolution. She went to landlords' homes to tie people up and carry their properties. The landlords were put in pig cages and their properties were shared between other villagers. The Red Guards wronged many people. After the communization, many starved to death. The production team put too many seeds in the field, and could not get enough harvest afterwards. People ran out of food quickly. Zeng did not suffer hunger because her family works at the eating hall and secretly brought back food. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

Huang Yujiao (b.1935) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. When Huang was seven years old, she became a child bride. After the liberation, she got divorced after being abused. She was then married to Ye Hengqin. Huang says that they sprinkled seeds instead of planting them. Following orders from higher authorities, they put many seeds within the same field and the crops could not live. During the Famine, people ate many kinds of famine foods. Someone ate twelve jin of zucchinis and got bloated to death. Someone died after eating too many bamboo shoots.

Ye Shiying (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye recollects that, during the Great Famine, people could only get two tablespoons of porridge from the eating hall every day, and ate them with steamed sweet potato slices at home. She also ate many other kinds of famine food and she could hardly find potatoes in the mountains after working for a whole day. Many people starved to death after the communization, including people in the elderly homes and maternities. The production team sprinkled seeds instead of actually planting them; they had no harvest, but reported the opposite to the higher authorities.

Zhu Shunlian (b. 1937) was born in Zhushan County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, and moved to Diaoyutai Village (Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province) in 1988. Her husband was once the production team leader. In this interview, Zhu recalls that she and her husband worked at Zhushan mine and ate at the People's Commune canteen in 1959. The food available in the canteen and households included buckwheat, corn flour, grass root, rice chaff, tree leaves, chingma abutilon seed and wild walnut, as well as a mixture made of soy milk, pumpkin leaves, string bean leaves, potato leaves and wild plants. Zhu also remembers that some people from Sichuan escaped to Hubei because of the famine.

Ye Yaolang (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye learned tailoring with his father after elementary school and then taught himself painting bed boards. He went to places to paint boards to escape the Great Famine. Ye recollects that, during the Great Leap Forward, the production team planted crops on two sides of the road just to impress their leaders, and used soil to fake fertilizers. The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.

Applications for Into the Fields, Sowing Seeds for Change, Students Organizing Schools; includes housing applications

Lu Fenglan (b. 1947) is a resident of Nanhou Village, Shanxi Province. In this interview, Lu talks about her experience during the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. After the communal canteen was established in 1958, whoever didn't work in the field couldn't get any food from the canteen. Those who owed the production team work points had to be fined. Therefore, Lu had to ask someone to take care of her kids while she went to work at the dam. She had to pay the nanny with some of the work points she earned. Although her own life was quite difficult, Lu lent several buns to her maternal grandpa twice.

Zhang Xiaogeng (b.1930) is a resident of Xizhai Village, Hanguguan Town, Lingbao City, Henan Province. In this interview, Zhang remembers experiences during the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. Due to the proneness to boasting and exaggeration at that time, tens of thousands jin of wheat and sweet potatoes were reported while the actual yield was only two or three hundred, and otherwise they would be criticized. When constructing backyard furnace, the village was organized into military units. Starvation began in 1960, because too much food was collected, the peasants didn't have enough to eat. He recalls eating corns and all kinds of leaves, eating grain seeds secretly while planting them as long as the cadres didn't know. At that time, peasants were divided into two classes, and landlords and rich peasants were struggled and beaten up.

Fang Xuekun said that the People's Commue was a total failure. The Great Leap Forward movement gave only empty promises. The village cadres bragged about production and sold all harvest including grain seeds to the state. In 1959 many people were sick because of starvation. Their belly was so bloated and big. He almost died. People had to mix kaolin clay with little grain to eat in order to survive.

Tags: Lesbian; Feminist; Joan Denman; The Booklegger; Feminist Bookstores; Barbara Grier; Fsu; Florida State University; Feminist Bookstore Network; Rubyfruit Books; University Of California Santa Barbara; Ms Magazine; Vista; Volunteers In Service To America; Huntsville Alabama; Robin Morgan; Rita Mae Brown; Anne Koedt; Judy Brady; Nick's News; Clear Englebert; Books As Seeds; Gay; Now; Alabama Now; George Wallace; Celia English; March On Washington; Donna Mcbride; American Booksellers Association; Aba; Book Expo; Carol Seajay; Feminist Bookstore News; Refuge House; Dana Farmer; Every Woman's Coffee House; Lisa Medley; Women's Outdoor Adventures; Tallahassee Gay And Lesbian Film Festival; Aids Activism; Big Bend Cares; Inland Book Distributors; New Leaf; Amenra; Susan Mayer; Naiad Press; Sheila Ortiz Taylor; Lee Lynch; Katherine V Forrest; Tallahassee Community College; Angela Davis; Tallahassee Activism; Lesbian Archives; Lesbian Websites; Lesbian Biographies; Slfahp; Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Tags: Kathleen Hannan; Women's Music; Bisexuality; Witch One; The Pagoda Center; The Center; Jude Speck; Our Bodies Ourselves; Catholicism; From Outside The South; New York; Coming Out; Meri Furnari; Mica-Meri Furnari; Organa; Debbie Venn; Kathy Oaks; Cathy Oaks; Vermont; Bellydancing; Morgana; Morgana Macvicar; Shefay; Sheila Fay; Nancy Breeze; Emily Greene; Pam Shook; Seeds For Peace; Pat Nolan; Peggy Mcintyre; Alix Dobkin; Teresa Trull; Pagoda Theatre; Pagoda Playhouse; Deb Ennis; Flame; Shyne; Barbara Lieu; Pam Oldham; Shyne; Nancy Breeze; Rainbow Williams; Barbie Quin; Lori Hollar; National Organization For Women (Now); Rena Carney; Astrology; Lesbian Astrology; By Any Other Name; Loraine Hutchins; Lani K'ahumanu; Controversies

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Dotter, Earl. An Illustrated Biography of Charles G. A. Thamm: Artist, Copper Plate Engraver, Inventory, and Photographer . Silver Spring, Maryland: self-published by the author.

Includes brochures, programs and flyers for centennial events related to the Presidential Awards, commencement, Martin Luther King, Jr. Service of Commemoration, "They Tried to Bury Us They Didn't Know We Were Seeds" exhibit, student actvism, guest speakers, and the Samuel DuBois Cook Society awards ceremony.

Plants, Garen & Flower Seeds, Birds, Bird Seed, and Sand. 2nd Door Below the American House, Greenfield, Mass.

[Dealer in] Flower Seeds. 319 & 323 Sixth St, South Minneapolis, Minn.

Keywords: Child and adult; Children; Country cloth; Golu; Weave / Prep thread

Keywords: Child and adult; Children; Country cloth; Golu; Weave / Prep thread

Seeds for self care. By Dayna Moth. Set of three mini-zine tarot spreads.

Orig. print number: JA/13MCA 5-33

Orig. print number: JA/13MCA 6-19

Orig. print number: JA/13MCA 3-24A-25

Note 1: "Starts with air taped Jazz, the GC dialogues and emotionals(on GBC 1 7/8) Not stereo. End side blank end of first side blank. 2nd side - Another machine - going backwards to GBC. An interrupting door knock."; Note 2: CD 1:End of interview w/ a writer, jazz. Christmas jazz music--DATE 12/24/??. Interview w/ Patty McCormack, child star of Broadway's "The Bad Seed." CD 2: In the loft. Smith talking to Carole. Long stretches of silence. Sex, interrupted by a knock on the door, more sex. ;

Tio Nelo is the name of a cafe specializing in horchata, a drink made from nuts, seeds and milk. Summary of text: Tio Nelo is a great cook and makes products that everyone loves. He eventually makes a lot of money off of his restaraunts and stops being as active as he once was. When he see that people are sad due to his absence he returns to cooking , which makes everyone very happy.

Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts. Pickens also comments on his visits to Cahaba, Alabama, and the flood which occurred while it was the state capitol.