- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Bessie London, Betty Hinson, Claude Ward, Porter McAteer Interview
- Creator:
- Hinson, Betty
London, Bessie
Ward, Claude
McAteer, Porter - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile industry
Textile workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Southern States--Economic conditions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Belmont Hosiery Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Eagle Yarn Mills
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873 - 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. Porter McAteer was a county commissioner for Gaston County and a teacher at Gaston College in Gastonia, N.C. Bessie London was from Belmont, N.C. Claude Ward was a textile worker at the Eagle Mill in Belmont, N.C.
Hinson discusses learning about the '34 strike, becoming involved in the project and other topics. McAtter discusses the relationship between industry and organized labor in Gaston County, politics in Gaston County and other topics. London discusses her life in Belmont, N.C. Ward discusses his working life at the Eagle Mill and the '34 strike. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0289
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/38
- 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, Bessie London, Claude Ward, Porter McAteer, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0289, 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:
- 01:01:04
- 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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