Gardin Family Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0351

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Gardin Family 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

Melville Gardin was a textile work and parishioner of St. Helen's Catholic Church in Gastonia, N.C. Grace Wilson was a textile worker and the Rex and Imperial Mills in Gastonia, N.C. Leon Kay was a textile worker in various mills in Gastonia, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (2:01:44 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

The beginning of this interview is a discussion with the larger Gardin family. Then Gardin and Wilson show George Stoney and the film crew around the area near St. Helen's. During this they discuss their childhoods, and working in various textile mills. There is a second interview with an unidentified couple on this tape that is all audio and no video. This interview discusses the organizing at some of the local mills, like the Loray, Rex Mill and Priscilla Mill as well as other topics.