- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Gardin Family Interview
- Creator:
- Gardin Family
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers
African Americans
Working class African Americans
Letters
Labor unions--Organizing
United States. National Recovery Administration - 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, Loray Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Monarch Mills
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Priscilla Spinning Company
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Ranlo, Rex Spinning Company Cotton Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Spencer Mountain, Spencer Mountain Mills, 35.29708, -81.11535 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Melville Gardin was a textile work and parishioner of St. Helen's Catholic Church in Gastonia, N.C. Grace Wilson was a textile worker and the Rex and Imperial Mills in Gastonia, N.C. Leon Kay was a textile worker in various mills in Gastonia, N.C.
The beginning of this interview is a discussion with the larger Gardin family. Then Gardin and Wilson show George Stoney and the film crew around the area near St. Helen's. During this they discuss their childhoods, and working in various textile mills. There is a second interview with an unidentified couple on this tape that is all audio and no video. This interview discusses the organizing at some of the local mills, like the Loray, Rex Mill and Priscilla Mill as well as other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0351
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/95
- 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):
- Gardin Family, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0351, 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:
- 02:01:44
- 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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