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Object Description
Interview no. | R-0049 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.6. Special Research Projects: African-American Working Class, 1930s-1950s |
Project description | Interviews, 1996-1998, conducted by William Jones, graduate student in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that reveal experiences of the African American working class during the shift from agriculture to industrialization in the 1930s to 1950s. Topics include race relations in textile mills and the lumber industry in Elizabethtown, N.C., Chapman, Ala., and Bogalusa, La.; labor union leadership; and African American leadership during strikes in Elizabethtown and Chapman. Some interviewees are factory owners; others discuss leisure activities. |
Date | 1 March 1998 |
Interviewee | Oatis, John Martin. |
Interviewee occupation |
Sawmill employees Factory workers Musicians |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Jones, William. |
Subject Topical |
African Americans--Louisiana. African Americans--Employment--Louisiana. African Americans--Louisiana. African Americans--Music. Labor movement--Louisiana. African American musicians--Louisiana. |
Subject Name | Oatis, John Martin. |
Citation | Interview with John Martin Oatis by William Jones, 1 March 1998 R-0049, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | R-0049 |