- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Betty Hinson, Phurman Biggerstaff, May Null, and Claude Helton Interviews
- Creator:
- Hinson, Betty
Helton, Claude
Biggerstaff, Phurman
Null, May
Helton, Mabel - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1992-07-28
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile factories
Textile workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Child care services - 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, Crescent 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. Louise Biggerstaff was the daughter of May Null and the wife of Phurman Biggerstaff. Phurman Biggerstaff was a spinner, a doffer, a twister, and a section hand at Crescent Mill in Belmont, N.C. May Null was a textile worker in Belmont, N.C. Claude Helton was a textile worker and union member in East Gastonia, N.C. Mable Helton was a textile worker in Belmont N.C.
Phurman Biggerstaff discusses the depression, labor unions and working conditions in the textile mills. Null discusses her family. Mrs. Helton discusses her time working at the textile mills, and the impact that it had on women with infants and small children. - Local Identifier:
- L1995 13_AV0281
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/40
- 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, Claude Helton, Phurman Biggerstaff, May Null, Mable Helton, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, 28 July 1992. L1995-13_AV0281, 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:
- 00:56:53
- 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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