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Title: Louise Smith Brennan oral history interview, circa 1990-1999
Creator: Brennan, Louise Smith, 1922-2007
Date Created: circa 1990-1999
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Elections, Mills and mill-work, Political parties, Women legislators, Women--Political activity, Women political candidates
Description: Louise Brennan recounts her early life growing up in Concord, North Carolina. She discusses the important role of education in her upbringing and the prevalence of textile mills in the Concord area. She describes living near a mill village in Conc...

Title: Ralph Glenn oral history interview, circa 1976
Creator: Glenn, Ralph Anderson, 1907-1995
Date Created: 1976
Subjects--Topical: Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Mills and mill-work, Labor unions and communism
Description: Ralph Glenn, a native of Gastonia, North Carolina, reflects on the events of the Loray Mill strike of 1929. Mr. Glenn was attending Davidson College at the time of the Loray Mill Strike and was not an eyewitness to the strike. However, his intervi...

Title: Ralph Glenn oral history interview, circa 1976
Creator: Glenn, Ralph Anderson, 1907-1995
Date Created: 1976
Subjects--Topical: Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Mills and mill-work, Labor unions and communism
Description: Ralph Glenn, a native of Gastonia, North Carolina, reflects on the events of the Loray Mill strike of 1929. Mr. Glenn was attending Davidson College at the time of the Loray Mill Strike and was not an eyewitness to the strike. However, his intervi...