Bill Irby and Clyde Deitz Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0547

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Bill Irby and Clyde Deitz 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

Bill Irby worked at the YMCA in Kannapolis, N.C. and owned Irby's Bargain House. Clyde Deitz was a textile mill worker in Belmont, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (28:49 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Irby discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 and his business. Deitz discusses working in the as a management trainee at a textile mill during the implementation of the National Recovery Act (NRA) and the history of the textile industry of in Belmont, N.C.