Bob Freeman and Ray Melton Interview 1, 24 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0536

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Bob Freeman and Ray Melton Interview 1

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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: 24 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

Bob Freeman was a union organizer and worked to integrate Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C. Ray Melton was a police officer in Kannapolis, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (30:41 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Freeman and Melton discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, the National Guard being called into Kannapolis, working in the mills, later unionization campaign, and other topics.