W.W. Williams and Robert Ragan Interviews, 22 August 1990
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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: 22 August 1990
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
W.W. Williams was a weaver and supervisor in Rock Hill, S.C. Robert Ragan is the son of the owner of Ragan Spinning Company in Gastonia, N.C.
Extent
1 item(s) (video (30:46 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Williams discuss his education in textiles and his work in the textile mill. Ragan discusses his grandfather G.W. Ragan's founding of the Ragan Mills and the early history of that mill.
Subject
- Ragan Spinning Company (Gastonia, N.C.) (Organization)
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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