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Yates Heafner, Betty Hinson, and Laurie Rushmeyer Interviews

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0360

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

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Yates Heafner was a mediator for the Textile Labor Relations Board. Betty Hinson was a looper at Belmont Hosiery in Belmont, N.C. Laurie Rushmeyer was a textile worker at Fieldcrest - Cannon Mills in Kannopolis, N.C. who was a union organizer in the 1990s.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (1:59:28 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Heafner discusses his work with Textile Labor Relations Board during the 1930s. Hinson discusses her involement in the Uprising of '34 documentary, her memories of her parents and grandparents work, and her childhood in a mill village. Rushmeyer discusses working conditions at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C., during the 1990s, and union organzing.

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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