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Interview no. | B-0055 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | B.1. Individual Biographies: General |
Project description | Biographical interviews, 1962-1983, aimed at balancing the lack of personal letters and diaries, which are becoming increasingly scarce in the public record. Interviewees include educators, business leaders, political activists, professional workers, authors, artists, homemakers, tobacco workers, domestic servants, and others in North Carolina and the southern region. |
Date | October 19, 1981 |
Interviewee |
Smith, Greef. Smith, Mattie, 1912- |
Interviewee occupation |
Textile workers Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1908; 1912 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bulla, Ben F. |
Abstract | Mattie and Greef Smith, longtime residents of Saxapahaw County, N.C., discuss their time working for B. Everett Jordan at the local textile mill. They recall the mill and fellow workers, Jordan and his family (who they have high regard for), and many significant incidents, including Jordan’s utilization of the National Guard in preventing the mill from being taken over by unions. |
Subject Topical |
Textile industry--North Carolina. Textile workers--North Carolina. |
Subject Name | Jordan, B. Everett (Benjamin Everett) |
Citation | Interview with Greef and Mattie Smith by Ben F. Bulla, 19 October 1981. B-0055 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. | B0055_Audio_1 |