- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- LeGette Blythe and Charles M. Ward Interviews
- Creator:
- Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993
Ward, Charles M. - 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 industry
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile Workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Newspaper employees
Newspapers
United Textile Workers of America
Methodist Church - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Firestone Cotton Mill - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- 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. Charles Ward grew up in Gastonia, N.C. and was the son of textile workers.
Blythe discusses his time at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, his work as a journalist and other topics. Ward discusses the local churches attached to the Firestone Mill, his father's work at the Firestone Mill in Gastonia, N.C., the Golden Rule Association, and growing up in the Firestone Mill village. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0348
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/69
- 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):
- LeGette Blythe and Charles M. Ward, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0348, 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:
- 01:56:01
- 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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