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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: 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: 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: Marion W. Boyd oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Boyd, Marion W. (Marion Woods), 1911-2007
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, African Americans--Education, Manners and customs, Families, Quakers--Education
Description: Marion W. Boyd discusses her experiences teaching throughout North Carolina and the challenges she faced as a result of graduating college during the Great Depression. Other topics discussed include family relations, her Quaker education, regional...

Title: Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
Creator: Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
Date Created: 2003-03-02
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
Description: 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...

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: Arthur Zemek oral history interview, 1979 May 23
Creator: Zemek, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1902-1980
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Banks and banking, Financial crises, Recruiting and enlistment
Description: Arthur J. Zemek recounts his experience as a bank cashier in Chicago, Illinois after the stock market crash of 1929. He discusses the actions of the bank's chairman, former U.S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes, to prevent a run on the bank. H...

Title: Gregory S. Hartsell, Frank Graham, and Tim Sloop oral history interview, 2003 August 10
Creator: Hartsell, Gregory S. (Gregory Scott)
Date Created: 2003-08-10
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Family farms, Farm life, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Depressions, Soil conservation, Natural areas, Zoning, Migrant agricultural laborers, Field crops, Housing development, Genealogy
Description: Gregory S. Hartsell, Frank Graham, and Tim Sloop illustrate the importance of migrant workers in farming and factors that make raising certain crops difficult on their farms in Rowan County, North Carolina. Subjects discussed include the use of th...