- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Yates Heafner, Roy "Whitey" Grant, Arval Hogan, Pauline Grant, and Evelyn Hogan Interviews
- Creator:
- Heafner, Yates
Grant, Roy "Whitey"
Hogan, Arval
Grant, Polly
Hogan, Evelyn - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile factories
Textile workers
Country music
Music--Performance
Radio stations, American
Working class--Songs and music
United States. National Recovery Administration - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Firestone Cotton Mill - Medium:
- oral histories (literary genre)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Yates Heafner was a mediator for the Textile Labor Relations Board. 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.
Heafner discusses working as a mediator for the Textile Labor Relations Board during the 1930s. Roy "Whitey" Grant discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill, playing music with Arval Hogan, and performing on local radio stations. Arval Hogan discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill, playing music with Roy "Whitey" Grant, and performing on local radio stations. Polly Grant discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill and raising her children. Evelyn Grant discusses working at the Firestone Cotton Mill. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0346
Yates Heafner - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/64
- 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: Yates Heafner, Roy "Whitey" Grant, Arval Hogan, Pauline Grant, and Evelyn Hogan, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0346, Series III: Archival Footage, The Uprising of '34 Collection (1995-13), Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 12:57:34 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:
-
