Robert Ragan Interview 6, 5 May 1994
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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: 5 May 1994
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 (57:35 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Ragan discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, unionization in the South, the impact of the textile workers' strike of 1934, and other topics.
Subject
- Ragan Spinning Company (Gastonia, N.C.) (Organization)
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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