Jake Gray and Charlie Wetzel Interviews
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Scope and Contents of 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. Charlie Wetzel was a textile manager and yarn salesman at the Stowe Mill in Belmont, N.C., and later worked for either a historical society or historic site in Gastonia, N.C.
Extent
1 item(s) (audio (52:45 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Gray discusses his family, the mills they owned, mill villages, and the textile workers' strike of 1934. Wetzel discusses his childhood, his work in the textile mills, his family's history in the textile industry, mill villages and other topics.
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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Atlanta, Georgia 30303
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