Yates Heafner, Roy "Whitey" Grant, Arval Hogan, Pauline Grant, and Evelyn Hogan Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0346

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Yates Heafner, Roy "Whitey" Grant, Arval Hogan, Pauline Grant, and Evelyn Hogan 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

Yates Heafner was a mediator for the Textile Labor Relations Board. Roy "Whitey" Grant was a doffer at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. He later was a member of the Briarhoppers, a band that played on WBT out of Charlotte, N.C. Arval Hogan was a doffer at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. He later was a member of the Briarhoppers, a band that played on WBT out Charlotte, N.C. Polly Grant was a spinner at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. She is Roy "Whitey" Grant's wife. Evelyn Hogan was a spinner at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. She is Arval Hogan's wife.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (1:57:34 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Heafner discusses working as a mediator for the Textile Labor Relations Board during the 1930s. Roy "Whitey" Grant discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill, playing music with Arval Hogan, and performing on local radio stations. Arval Hogan discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill, playing music with Roy "Whitey" Grant, and performing on local radio stations. Polly Grant discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill and raising her children. Evelyn Grant discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill.