Betty Hinson, Phurman Biggerstaff, May Null, and Claude Helton Interviews, 28 July 1992

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0281

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Betty Hinson, Phurman Biggerstaff, May Null, and Claude Helton 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: 28 July 1992

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. Claude Helton was a textile worker and union member in East Gastonia, N.C. Mable Helton was a textile worker in Belmont N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (56:53 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Phurman Biggerstaff discusses the depression, labor unions and working conditions in the textile mills. Null discusses her family. Mrs. Helton discusses her time working at the textile mills, and the impact that it had on women with infants and small children.