- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Betty Hinson, Myrtle Brown, Mason Lynch, and Eva Helms Interviews
- Creator:
- Hinson, Betty
Brown, Myrtle
Lynch, Mason
Helms, Eva - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1992-06-26
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile factories
Textile industry
Textile workers
Child labor
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Women textile workers
Wages - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, 35.24292, -81.0373
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Belmont Hosiery Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Chronicle Mill - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Betty Hinson was a looper at Belmont Hosiery in Belmont, N.C. Mason Lynch was a textile worker at the Chronicle Mill in Belmont, N.C. Myrtle Brown was a textile worker at the Chronicle Mill in Belmont, N.C. Eva Helms was a textile worker at the Chronicle Mill in Belmont, N.C.
The portion of the video featuring Hinson is silent. Lynch discusses his career working for the Lineberger family and life in the mill village. Brown discusses her time working in the mills and life in the mill village. Helms discusses her time working in the mills and the 1934 textile strike. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0278
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/37
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/40/
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Betty Hinson, Myrtle Brown, Mason Lynch, and Eva Helms, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 26 June 1992. L1995-13_AV0278, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 00:56:10
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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