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Object Description
Interview no. | B-0047 |
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 | September 11, 1981 |
Interviewee | Cagle, Ernest. |
Interviewee occupation | Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1913 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bulla, Ben F. |
Abstract | Ernest Cagle, an employee of Sellers Manufacturing in Saxapahaw County, N.C., discusses his work history from the 1920s onward in various textile mills in North Carolina and Virginia. Major themes are the Depression and the impact it had on the industry and his own life (he admits to making and selling moonshine), his relations with his employers, trade unions and his decision not to join, and his personal life and family. |
Subject Topical |
Textile workers--North Carolina. Strikes and lockouts--North Carolina. Child labor--North Carolina. |
Subject Name | Jordan, B. Everett (Benjamin Everett) |
Citation | Interview with Ernest Cagle by Ben F. Bulla, 11 September 1981. B-0047 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Description
Interview no. | B-0047 |