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Interview no. | H-0004 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.1. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Badin, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, conducted by Rosemarie Hester, 1977-1980, documenting the transformation of a rural area into Badin, N.C., a company town dominated by ALCOA. Topics include union activity, race relations, discrimination at work and in the town, and living conditions. The interviews were used in the video documentary Aluminum Town (1980). |
Date | JUne 17, 1977 |
Interviewee | Cotton, T. J. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1905 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hester, Rosemarie. |
Abstract | Location and use of the Old Cotton Place, his grandfather's home and his own birth place; selling of the land; names of families living in Badin before construction of the dam and plant; recruitment of construction workers (who they were, where they came from); law enforcement; worker's housing; convict labor from Raleigh prison; reaction of families to construction; Jimmy the Greek; description of the French; Badin's doctors; Palmerville's schools; Cotton's decision to leave his farm; weather, bugs, and farming. |
Subject Topical | Steel industry and trade--Southern States. |
Citation | Interview with T.J. Cotton by Rosemarie Hester, 17 June 1977 H-0004, 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. | H0004_Audio_1 |