Clyde Deitz Interview 2, 20 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0546

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Clyde Deitz Interview 2

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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: 20 August 1991

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

Clyde Deitz was a textile mill worker in Belmont, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (28:54 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Deitz discuss the labor intensive nature of the textile industry in the 1930s, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the effect of the strike on later unionization campaign, the impact of the National Guard on the strike, the history of textiles in Belmont, and other topics.