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Title: Donnie R. Thrower oral history interview, 1994 October 4
Creator: Thrower, Donnie R. (Donnie Rhyne), 1929-2014
Date Created: 1994-10-04
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Patients, Hosiery, Nylon, Secretaries, Textile factories, Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Family relationships
Description: Donnie Thrower describes her early life and career in the textile industry in McAdenville and Belmont, North Carolina. She recalls how she quit school at age sixteen in order to go to work at a nylon hosiery mill in Belmont, where she remained for...

Title: Evelyn Grindstaff oral history interview, 1999 February 22
Creator: Grindstaff, Evelyn, 1922-
Date Created: 1999-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Mills and mill-work, Work environment, Textile workers, Dyslexia, Functional literacy
Description: Evelyn Grindstaff recounts her life and forty-five years working in textile mills in Gastonia, North Carolina. Topics discussed include her experiences working at the Groves Mills beginning at the age of fifteen, her husband's World War II service...

Title: Mary Nixon oral history interview, 2005 November 18
Creator: Nixon, Mary W., 1941-
Date Created: 2005-11-18
Subjects--Topical: Tobacco farms, Textile workers, Mills and mill-work, Strikes and lockouts, Labor unions, Diabetes, Diabetes in children
Description: Mary Nixon recounts her life and experiences living in rural Yadkin County, North Carolina. She describes growing up on a tobacco farm, how her family grew most of the food they ate, and how she and her siblings would miss school in order to help ...

Title: Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
Creator: Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-05
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
Description: Mattie Creighton, a lifelong Charlottean, recalls growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina and working as a young woman during the 1930s and 1940s. Ms. Creighton describes her hardships during the time period including s...

Title: Myrtle Hall oral history interview, 2002 September 22
Creator: Hall, Myrtle, 1910-2004
Date Created: 2002-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Mills and mill-work, Country life, Land use, Rural, Family farms, Political participation, Quilting, Voluntarism
Description: Myrtle Hall discusses her life in Ophir, North Carolina, a community in Montgomery County near Troy. She discusses working at the Fremont Hosiery Mill until knee problems forced her to retire at eighty years old. Her family owned a farm and grew a...

Title: Norris A. Dearmon oral history interview, 1998 October 6
Creator: Dearmon, Norris A. (Norris Adam), 1922-
Date Created: 1998-10-06
Subjects--Topical: Dentistry, Military, Mills and mill-work, Local history, Company towns, Textile industry--Technological innovations
Description: Norris Dearmon recounts his life in Kannapolis, North Carolina and his sixty-year long relationship with Cannon Mills as an employee and amateur historian. Topics discussed include his childhood growing up during the Great Depression, his experien...

Title: Oni Wilson oral history interview, 2003 February 26
Creator: Wilson, Oni, 1915-2009
Date Created: 2003-02-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton, Political and social views, Baseball, Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Company towns, Baptists
Description: Oni Wilson describes his childhood during the Great Depression and growing up on a cotton farm in Davidson, North Carolina. He talks about how his family lost their home in 1929 because of the fall of cotton prices, then rented a home and farmland...

Title: Otto Lutz oral history interview, 1974 March 25
Creator: Lutz, Otto, 1925-2017
Date Created: 1974-03-25
Subjects--Topical: War, Soldiers, Armed Forces--Swiss regiments, Border patrols, Rationing
Description: Otto Lutz discusses his time in the Swiss Army during World War II. He talks about growing up in Uster, Switzerland, ten to fifteen miles outside Zurich and how he was fourteen when World War II broke out. In 1944, he joined the Swiss Army, as all...

Title: Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
Creator: Case, Virginia, 1918-
Date Created: 1996-09-10
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Virginia Case discusses her family and life in Gastonia, North Carolina. Originally from Pickens County, South Carolina, she and her husband moved to Gastonia in the mid-1930s. Mrs. Case describes how difficult life was during the Great Depression...

Title: Waitsell Ensley oral history interview, 2006 March 22
Creator: Ensley, Waitsell, 1936-
Date Created: 2006-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Parents--Death, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Social values
Description: Textiles industry manager Waitsell Ensley discusses his life and his family. He describes his unexpected birth and his childhood growing up in small mill towns in Gaston County, North Carolina. In particular, Mr. Ensley talks about rationing durin...

Title: William S. Summer oral history interview, 2006 August 9
Creator: Summer, William S. (William Smith), 1931-2017
Date Created: 2006-08-09
Subjects--Topical: White supremacy movements, Hate groups, Political and social views, Community organization, Racism, Race discrimination, Political persecution
Description: William S. Summer describes his early life growing up in Newberry County, South Carolina and his experiences as a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Mr. Summer discusses how he became a member of the KKK, including attending his first Klan rally an...