Rock Hill (S.C.)
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Mabel Sturges and Geraldine Orr Interview, 22 August 1990
Sturges discusses working in a textile mill as child, growing up in the mill village, her education, unionization and other topics. Orr helps Sturges to pack up canned goods.
Reid Roach Interview 1, 21 August 1990
Roach discusses his garden, going to work in the textile mills, his work in the textile mills, union organizing and other topics.
Reid Roach Interview 2, 22 August 1990
Roach discusses the wages in the textile industry in Rock Hill, S.C., working in the textile mill, union organizing, his education and other topics.
Textile Workers Union of America contracts collection
The collection consists of 175 agreements, 1939-1976, between various local unions of the Textile Workers Union of America and manufacturers.
W. W. Williams Interview, 22 August 1990
Williams discusses Franklin Roosevelt, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and his work in the textile mills.
W.W. Williams and Robert Ragan Interviews, 22 August 1990
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.
W.W. Williams Interview 2, 22 August 1990
Williams discusses African Americans and women that worked in the textile mills, life in the mill village, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, and other topics.