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Interview no. | E-0154 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | E.5. Labor: Civil Rights Unionism |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-2000, chiefly conducted by Robert Rodgers Korstad, Lisa Hazirjian, Karl Korstad, and Lane Windham, mostly with people employed by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th century, but especially in the 1940s. Many interviewees were active in the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers of America Local 22, but there are also interviews with anti-union interviewees, RJR officials, and people active in Local 10 in Greensboro, N.C. There is a special focus on work stoppages and the strikes of 1943 and 1947; other topics include the workings of Locals 22 and 10, living conditions in the Winston-Salem African American community, and the Communist Party's role in local events during this time. |
Date | June 14, 1983 |
Interviewee | Royal, Sidney. |
Interviewee occupation |
Cleaning personnel Factory workers Maintenance workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1913 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Korstad, Robert Rodgers. |
Abstract | Family history and childhood in Georgia; employment history, process of tobacco production; Baptist Church; development as a musician; memories of Georgia in the 1910s and 1920s; father's employment in railroad yard; 1926 move to Winston-Salem, NC; employment tagging tobacco at age 13 at Brown Williamson; working conditions at R.J. Reynolds in comparison to Brown Williamson; experience in a green leaf house; fraternal associations; social activities of 1930s and 1940s; discussion of textile workers and Like a Family. |
Subject Topical |
Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Economic conditions. Winston-Salem (N.C.)--History. Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social conditions. African Americans--North Carolina. Labor movement--North Carolina. Strikes and lockouts--North Carolina--Winston-Salem. |
Subject Name |
Communist Party (N.C.) R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America. |
Citation | Interview with Sidney Roayl by Robert Rodgers Korstad, June 14, 1983 E-0154, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | E0154_Audio |