- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Charles M. Ward and Melville Gardin/St. Helen's Interviews
- Creator:
- Ward, Charles M.
Gardin, Melville - 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 factories
Textile manufacturers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers
African American churches
United States. National Recovery Administration
Catholic Church - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Charles Ward grew up in Gastonia, N.C. and was the son of textile workers. Melville Gardin was a textile worker and parishioner at St. Helen's Catholic Church in Gastonia, N.C.
Ward discusses the mutual aid society his father was involved in, unions, and the Firestone Mill in Gastonia, N.C. Gardin introduces the crew to his family, and takes them to Mass with him. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0349
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/68
- 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):
- Charles M. Ward, Melville Gardin, and St. Helen's Catholic Church Parishioners, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0349, 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:
- 01:57:52
- 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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