Elaine Pruitt, Howard R. Made, Ernest Moore, Ruby Moore, and E.O. Friday Interviews
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Scope and Contents of 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
Howard R. Made was a textile worker at the Hanes Mill in Winston-Salem, N.C. Ernest and Ruby Moore were textile workers at the Eagle Mill in East Gastonia, N.C. E.O. Friday was a mill worker at the Modena Mill in Gastonia, N.C.
Extent
1 item(s) (video (1:56:13 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Elaine Pruitt and George Stoney talk to Made about a railroad station near the Hanes Town mill village. Ernest Moore talks about union organization efforts. Ruby Moore discusses how she managed her household while working at the mill. Friday talks about the African American experience in the mills and the exclusion of African Americans from joining the union.
Subject
- Eagle Yarn Mills (Belmont, Gaston County, N.C.) (Organization)
- Modena Cotton Mill Corporation (Organization)
- Groves Mill (Gastonia, N.C.) (Organization)
- Hanes Menswear Inc. (Organization)
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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