- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Roy "Whitey" Grant, Arval Hogan, Polly Grant, Evelyn Hogan, and Legette Blythe Interviews
- Creator:
- Grant, Roy "Whitey"
Hogan, Arval
Hogan, Evelyn
Grant, Polly
Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993 - 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
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
American newspapers
Newspaper employees
Women textile workers
New Deal (1933-1939)
United Textile Workers of America
Firestone Textiles (Gastonia, N.C.) - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary genre)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Roy "Whitey" Grant was a doffer at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. He later was a member of the Briarhoppers, a band that played on WBT out of Charlotte, N.C. Arval Hogan was a doffer at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. He later was a member of the Briarhoppers, a band that played on WBT out Charlotte, N.C. Polly Grant was a spinner at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. She is Roy "Whitey" Grant's wife. Evelyn Hogan was a spinner at the Firestone Cotton Mill in Gastonia, N.C. She is Arval Hogan's wife. Legette Blythe was an author and journalist from Huntersville, N.C. He worked at the Charlotte Observer at the time of the 1934 General Textile Strike.
Roy "Whitey" Grant discusses the impacts of the 1934 strike, life at the Firestone Cotton Mill, and his and Arval Hogan's music careers. Arval Hogan discusses the impacts of the 1934 strike, life at the Firestone Cotton Mill, and his and Roy "Whitey" Grant music careers. Polly Grant discusses raising her children, working in the textile mills around Gastonia, N.C. and other topics. Evelyn Hogan discusses raising her children, working in the textile mills around Gastonia, N.C. and other topics. Blythe discusses his home, his career as a journalist and author, writing for the Charlotte Observer, and his reporting on the 1934 General Textile Strike. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0347
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/61
- 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:
- Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript.||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):
- Cite as: Roy "Whitey" Grant, Arval Hogan, Polly Grant, Evelyn Hogan, and Legette Blythe, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0347, Series III: Archival Footage, The Uprising of '34 Collection (1995-13), Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 12:58:11 AM
- Original Collection:
- Containers 33 and 83||Southern Labor Archives||https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472||Series III: Archival Footage||The Uprising of '34 Collection (L1995-13)
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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