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Title: Betty Morgan oral history interview, 2006 March 26
Creator: Morgan, Betty, 1932-
Date Created: 2006-03-26
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Rural families, Education, Rural, Education, Elementary, College students, Rural electrification
Description: Betty Morgan recounts her life growing up in rural Rowan County, North Carolina. One of nine children, Mrs. Morgan discusses growing up on her family's small farm and how they grew the majority of their own food, as well as cotton. The farm lacked...

Title: Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
Creator: Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
Date Created: 1996-10-18
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
Description: Rutherford County native Elizabeth Biggerstaff describes her life and how she balances work and family. She describes her early life growing up in the country outside of Cliffside, North Carolina, with two older brothers and attending local school...

Title: Harold Smith oral history interview 2, 2008 March 19
Creator: Smith, Harold, 1932-
Date Created: 2008-03-19
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Drag racing, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Motors--Modification, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobile racing--Accidents, Automobiles, Racing--Maintenance and repair, Automobile racing--Employees, Automobile racing drivers--Family relationships
Description: In this second interview, modified stock car mechanic, pit crew member, and motorsports enthusiast Harold Smith reflects on his experiences in the racing community from the 1950s through the time of interview. Mr. Smith describes how he began work...

Title: Jonathan Scoggin oral history interview, 2004 November 20
Creator: Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
Date Created: 2004-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Kla...

Title: Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
Creator: Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
Date Created: 1997-09-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
Description: Julia Perryman recalls her experience growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. She discusses the difficult financial hardships that her family endured after her father was left paralyzed following an illness and could no l...

Title: Leon Lowder oral history interview, 1999 March 6
Creator: Lowder, Leon, 1906-
Date Created: 1999-03-06
Subjects--Topical: Cotton growing, Country life, Farm life, Farm management, Farm management--Economic aspects, Family farms, Race relations, Political and social views
Description: Leon Lowder recounts his life, family, and work in retail and farming in central South Carolina from the 1930s-1980s. Mr. Lowder describes being the seventh out of eleven children in a farming family and leaving home in 1926 to work in the grocery...

Title: Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
Creator: Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
Date Created: 1994-10-08
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Albemarle native Lucille Harwood recounts her experiences during the Great Depression, World War II, and the second half of the twentieth century. She describes growing up very poor during the Depression, but explains how families would always sha...

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: Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 1, 2004 November 5
Creator: Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
Date Created: 2004-11-05
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Peggy Scoggin Holland recalls memories of her father, Robert E. Scoggin, particularly in regard to his role as a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina. Mrs. Holland describes her childhood perspective of Klan rallies as social events ...

Title: Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 2, 2005 July 26
Creator: Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
Date Created: 2005-07-26
Subjects--Topical: White supremacy movements, Anti-communist movements, Right-wing extremists, Political persecution, People with disabilities--Family relationships, Prisoners, Prisoners--Employment
Description: In this second interview, mortgage bank accountant Peggy Scoggin Holland defends her father Robert Scoggin, a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Mrs. Holland begins by describing her father's work history, time in the Navy, and views o...

Title: Tom Gilmore oral history interview, 1996 September 29
Creator: Gilmore, Thomas Odell, Sr., 1936-
Date Created: 1996-09-29
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Civil rights movements, Political participation, Legislation
Description: Tom Gilmore discusses his career in North Carolina politics and in his family business, Gilmore Plant and Bulb. Born in Julian, North Carolina in 1936, he describes being very close as a young boy to an African American boy of the same age. Mr. Gi...

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: Wilma Conder oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Conder, Wilma H., 1923-2014
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Industrial relations, Automation, Foundries--Automation, Pipe mills, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics--Molding, Plastics workers, Shipment of goods, Teams in the workplace, Women blue collar workers, Work environment
Description: In her interview, Wilma Conder recounts her twenty-five years at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry plastics plant. Mrs. Conder discusses her job as an operator of a large molding machine, noting her pioneering efforts in this position as few women da...