Betty Hinson, Louise Biggerstaff, Phurman Biggerstaff, May Null Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0280

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Betty Hinson, Louise Biggerstaff, Phurman Biggerstaff, May Null 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

Betty Hinson was a looper at Belmont Hosiery in Belmont, N.C. Louise Biggerstaff was the daughter of May Null and the wife of Phurman Biggerstaff. Phurman Biggerstaff was a spinner, a doffer, a twister, and a section hand at Crescent Mill in Belmont, N.C. May Null was a textile worker in Belmont, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (57:06 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Hinson discusses how she found Null, who is believed to be a woman in one of George Stoney's photo. Louise Biggerstaff discusses her mother's work, and life as well as other topics. Phurman Biggerstaff discusses his childhood memories of the 1934 strike, his childhood in the mill village, his work in the textile mills, and other topics. Null discusses her work in the mills, and her sister Margaret, who is in George Stoney's photo.