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Interview no. | H-0007 |
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 19, 1977 |
Interviewee | Royal, Harry. |
Interviewee occupation | Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1912 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Hester, Rosemarie. |
Abstract | Family background; early schooling; first jobs; beginning of work with ALCOA, 1929; feelings about ALCOA; company housing, The Village; relations with workers who commuted to the plant; importance of work at Badin; establishment of the union; white and black interest in the union; first strike; organizers from inside Badin; changes in working conditions brought on by the union; poll tax in NC; political involvement and precinct work. |
Subject Topical | Steel industry and trade--North Carolina. |
Citation | Interview with Harry Royal by Rosemarie Hester, 19 June 1977 H-0007, 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. | H0007_Audio_1 |