E.O. Friday and Margaret Garrett Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0340

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E.O. Friday and Margaret Garrett Interviews

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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 / Historical

E.O. Friday was a mill worker at the Modena Mill in Gastonia, N.C. Margaret Garrett was a spinner at the Imperial Mill in Belmont, NC. Lucille Cloninger was a spinner at the Imperial Mill in Belmont, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (1:47:16 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Friday discusses the 1934 strike and the union. Garrett discusses a photo taken of her during the 1934 strike, the strike, the union, her working life at the Imperial Mill and her childhood. Cloninger discusses the 1934 strike, the unions, her working life at the Imperial Mill and her childhood.