Jake Gray and Esther Gray Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0720

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Jake Gray and Esther Gray 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

Jake Gray was a mill owner in Gastonia, N.C. Esther Gray was Jake Gray's wife.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (30:46 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Jake Gray discusses the state of the textile industry in the 1920s and 1930s, the paternalism of mill owners, brown lung, working conditions in the mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and other topics.