Lucille Cloninger, Margaret Garrett, May Null, Phurman Biggerstaff, and Louise Biggerstaff Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0342

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Lucille Cloninger, Margaret Garrett, May Null, Phurman Biggerstaff, and Louise Biggerstaff Interview

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates

Creation: 1987-1995

Creator

From the Collection: Stoney, George C. (Person)
From the Collection: Helfand, Judith (Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Lucille Cloninger was a spinner at the Imperial Mill in Belmont, N.C. Margaret Garrett was a spinner at the Imperial Mill in Belmont, N.C. May Null was a textile worker in Belmont, N.C. Louise Biggerstaff is May Null's daughter and Margaret Garrett's niece. Phurman Biggerstaff is May Null's son-in-law.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (1:58:51 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Cloninger discusses her marriage, life in the mill village, and working at the mill. Garrett discusses working in the textile mill and the 1934 strike. Phurman Biggerstaff discusses his childhood memories of the strike and the impact of the strike. Louise Biggerstaff discusses memories of her childhood in the mill village.