- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Lucille Cloninger, Margaret Garrett, May Null, Phurman Biggerstaff, and Louise Biggerstaff Interview
- Creator:
- Cloninger, Lucille
Garrett, Margaret
Null, May
Biggerstaff, Phurman
Biggerstaff, Louise - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Cotton manufacture
Textile factories
Textile industry--Labor productivity
Textile workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Women textile workers
United Textile Workers of America - 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, Imperial Yarn Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Lucille Cloninger was a spinner at the Imperial Mill in Belmont, N.C. Margaret Garrett was a spinner at the Imperial Mill in Belmont, N.C. May Null was a textile worker in Belmont, N.C. Louise Biggerstaff is May Null's daughter and Margaret Garrett's niece. Phurman Biggerstaff is May Null's son-in-law.
Cloninger discusses her marriage, life in the mill village, and working at the mill. Garrett discusses working in the textile mill and the 1934 strike. Phurman Biggerstaff discusses his childhood memories of the strike and the impact of the strike. Louise Biggerstaff discusses memories of her childhood in the mill village. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0342
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/60
- 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):
- Lucille Cloninger, Margaret Garrett, May Null, Phurman Biggerstaff, and Louise Biggerstaff, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0342, 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:
- 01:58:51
- 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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