Yvonnie Hill and Rev. Frank Miller Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0328

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Yvonnie Hill and Rev. Frank Miller 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 Note

Reverend Frank Miller was a preacher, textile worker, and a member of the local textile workers' union in in Concord, N.C. He worked in Johnston Mill, also referred to as the Brown Mill. Yvonnie Hill was a spinner, spooler, and winder at Eagle Mill in Belmont, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (57:39 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Hill discusses handing over her diaries to Gaston County Museum. Miller discusses life in the mill village, union organizing, the 1934 strike, wages, and other topics.