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Object Description
Interview no. | E-0099 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | E.5. Labor: Civil Rights Unionism |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-2000, chiefly conducted by Robert Rodgers Korstad, Lisa Hazirjian, Karl Korstad, and Lane Windham, mostly with people employed by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th century, but especially in the 1940s. Many interviewees were active in the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers of America Local 22, but there are also interviews with anti-union interviewees, RJR officials, and people active in Local 10 in Greensboro, N.C. There is a special focus on work stoppages and the strikes of 1943 and 1947; other topics include the workings of Locals 22 and 10, living conditions in the Winston-Salem African American community, and the Communist Party's role in local events during this time. |
Date | August 24, 1984 |
Interviewee | Black, Robert Chick. |
Interviewee occupation |
Political activists Factory workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1904 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer |
Korstad, Robert Rodgers. Lyons, Gary. |
Abstract | Childhood and family; work at RJ Reynolds as a child and first RJR jobs as an adult as a stemmer; move from the farm to New Jersey to Winston-Salem, N.C.; farming; Black's parents and family life; baseball; interactions with whites as a child and as an adult through work and his opinions about racial prejudice; social relationship among workers at RJR; experiences with a vocal quartet comprised of RJR workers and music preferences; religion and church; average day in the RJR plant when Black worked as a child; full time piece work; describes various hourly jobs at RJR, hand stemming process; treatment of women in the stemmeries by foremen. |
Subject Topical |
Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social life and customs. Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Economic conditions. Winston-Salem (N.C.)--History. Winston-Salem (N.C.)--Social conditions. African Americans--North Carolina. Labor movement--North Carolina. Strikes and lockouts--North Carolina--Winston-Salem. |
Subject Name |
Communist Party (N.C.) R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America. |
Citation | Interview with Robert Chick Black by Robert Rodgers Korstad and Gary Lyons, August 24, 1984 E-0099, 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. | E0099_Audio |