Robert Ragan Interview 3, 23 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0540

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Robert Ragan Interview 3

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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: 23 August 1991

Creator

Ragan, Robert Allison, 1938- (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Robert Ragan is the son of the owner of Ragan Spinning Company in Gastonia, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:26 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Ragan discusses the movement of workers from the farms to the mill village, the relationship between the mills and churches, schools in Gastonia, and the history of various textile mills in Gastonia.