Robert Moses, Ernest Moore, and E.W. Passmore Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0302

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Robert Moses, Ernest Moore, and E.W. Passmore 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

Robert Moses was a radio broadcaster in Gastonia, N.C. Ernest Moore was a textile worker at the Eagle Mill in East Gastonia, N.C. E.W. Passmore was an employee with the Firestone Mill, previously known as the Loray Mill.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (58:18 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Moses uses his radio show to help Stoney reach out to and find textile workers from the Loray Mill, particularly African American workers. Moore drives Stoney and his crew around the area around the Loray Mill and discusses things such as the Labor Day parades and the businesses that were previously in the area. Passmore shows the filmmakers and Ernest Moore around the Firestone Mill, which was previously called the Loray Mill at the time of the General Textile Strike of 1934.