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Eb Clifton oral history interview, 2008 March 11
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Creator
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Clifton, Eb, 1927-
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Date Created
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2008-03-11
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Subjects--Topical
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Automobile mechanics, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Motorsports
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Description
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Eb Clifton recalls his 60-year career as a stock car racing mechanic and driver. After serving in the military during World War II, he opened a garage in King, North Carolina in 1949. Mr. Clifton describes how he learned to build race cars and fie...
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Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
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Creator
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Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
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Date Created
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1996-10-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
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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...
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Ernest Henderson oral history interview, 2004 March 9
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Creator
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Henderson, Ernest, Sr., 1917-2011
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Date Created
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2004-03-09
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Subjects--Topical
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Families, Family farms, Farm life, Molasses, African American schools, Segregation in education, Segregation, Military education, Air pilots, Military, African American air pilots, Flight training, Armed Forces, War
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Ernest Henderson talks about his experiences as an African American growing up in Mountville, South Carolina during the 1920s and later serving in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor during World War II. Mr. Henderson describes attending hig...
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Evelyn Grindstaff oral history interview, 1999 February 22
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Creator
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Grindstaff, Evelyn, 1922-
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Date Created
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1999-02-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Mills and mill-work, Work environment, Textile workers, Dyslexia, Functional literacy
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Description
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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...
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Floyd Simmons oral history interview 2, 2004 March 26
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Creator
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Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
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Date Created
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2004-03-26
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Subjects--Topical
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War, War stories, Battles, Combat, Land mines, War casualties, War wounds, Military hospitals, Olympics, Veterans
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Description
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Floyd "Chunk" Simmons continues his story in this second of three interviews with a discussion of his time serving in the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army during World War II. Mr. Simmons arrived in Italy in August 1944 and stayed ...
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Floyd Simmons oral history interview 3, 2004 April 7
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Creator
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Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
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Date Created
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2004-04-07
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Subjects--Topical
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War, Veterans, Universities and colleges, College sports, College students, College-student veterans, Decathlon, Decathlon--Training, Athletes, Olympics, Olympic athletes, Motion pictures, Acting, Photography
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In this last of three interviews, Floyd "Chunk" Simmons discusses his activities after serving in World War II, including his time in the Olympics and in Hollywood as an actor. After the war, Mr. Simmons attended the University of North Carolina a...
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Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
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Creator
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Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
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Date Created
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2003-03-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
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Joseph E. Broughton shares what it was like to grow up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and why he joined World War II. Mr. Broughton was ten years old when the stock market crashed and he got his first job at an ice house to help supp...
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Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
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Creator
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Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
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Date Created
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1997-09-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
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Description
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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...
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Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
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Creator
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Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
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Date Created
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1994-10-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
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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...
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Mary Farr oral history interview, 1979 October 23
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Creator
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Farr, Mary, 1916-2007
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Date Created
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1979-10-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Christianity, Christian life
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Mary Farr discusses her Christian faith and her memories of life during World War II. Other topics include her first history course and her belief that Americans were turning away from religion at the time of interview.
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Norris A. Dearmon oral history interview, 1998 October 6
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Creator
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Dearmon, Norris A. (Norris Adam), 1922-
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Date Created
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1998-10-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Dentistry, Military, Mills and mill-work, Local history, Company towns, Textile industry--Technological innovations
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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...
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Oni Wilson oral history interview, 2003 February 26
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Creator
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Wilson, Oni, 1915-2009
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Date Created
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2003-02-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton, Political and social views, Baseball, Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Company towns, Baptists
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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...
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Otto Lutz oral history interview, 1974 March 25
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Creator
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Lutz, Otto, 1925-2017
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Date Created
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1974-03-25
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Subjects--Topical
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War, Soldiers, Armed Forces--Swiss regiments, Border patrols, Rationing
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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...
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Susan Cernyak oral history interview, 1974 March 28
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Cernyak-Spatz, Susan E., 1922-
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Date Created
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1974-03-28
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Subjects--Topical
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Antisemitism, Concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, Jews
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Susan Cernyak, a UNC Charlotte professor and Holocaust survivor, recounts her experience during World War II. Born in Austria, Ms. Cernyak describes the treatment of Austrian Jews before and after Nazi Germany's annexation of the country. She expl...
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Tom Snipes oral history interview, 1993 February 25
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Snipes, Walter Thomas, 1932-
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Date Created
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1993-02-25
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Subjects--Topical
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College administrators, College teachers, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Race relations
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Tom Snipes describes his early upbringing in Kannapolis and Raleigh, North Carolina in an autocratic, yet loving home run by his disciplinarian father. He recalls the challenges of growing up during the Depression in a large family with meager res...
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Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
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Case, Virginia, 1918-
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Date Created
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1996-09-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
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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...
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Waitsell Ensley oral history interview, 2006 March 22
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Ensley, Waitsell, 1936-
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Date Created
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2006-03-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Parents--Death, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Social values
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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...
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William "Whitey" Norman oral history interview, 2007 September 18
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Creator
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Norman, Whitey, 1926-
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Date Created
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2007-09-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobile racing--accidents, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Automobile mechanics, Automobile racing drivers, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Parties
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Whitey Norman recalls his career as a race car driver during the 1950s. Growing up on a tobacco farm in Yadkin County, North Carolina, he remembers how he was interested in driving from a young age. After serving as a tank driver in the Second Wor...