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Donnie R. Thrower oral history interview, 1994 October 4
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Creator
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Thrower, Donnie R. (Donnie Rhyne), 1929-2014
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Date Created
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1994-10-04
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Subjects--Topical
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Cancer--Patients, Hosiery, Nylon, Secretaries, Textile factories, Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Family relationships
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Description
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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...
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Herman Cunningham oral history interview, 1993 September 7
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Creator
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Cunningham, Herman, 1928-2018
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Date Created
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1993-09-07
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Subjects--Topical
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Basketball, School sports, Basketball teams, Basketball--Tournaments, School sports--Social aspects, Segregation in education, Sports for women, Country life, School discipline
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Description
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Herman Cunningham recounts playing on the basketball team during the 1940s at Winchester High School, a segregated school for African Americans in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. Cunningham describes how the school partially burned down in the 1930s a...
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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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Description
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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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Mildred Bauguess oral history interview, 1993 May 14
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Creator
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Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
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Date Created
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1993-05-14
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Subjects--Topical
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Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers
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Description
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Mildred Little Bauguess discusses her basketball career at Claremont High School in Claremont, North Carolina and playing semi-professionally on the Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball team during the 1940s and 1950s. She recalls the accolades, tourn...
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Tom Snipes oral history interview, 1993 February 25
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Creator
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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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Description
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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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Creator
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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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Description
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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...