Nixon, Mary W., 1941-

Duty, Sarah W.

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections

2005-11-18

1 audio file (19:46) : digital, MP3

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Mary Nixon was a 64-year-old woman at the time of interview. She was born in Hamptonville, North Carolina in 1941. She completed high school, and was employed in a sheet metal factory and as a textile worker.

Mary Nixon recounts her life and experiences living in rural Yadkin County, North Carolina. She describes growing up on a tobacco farm, how her family grew most of the food they ate, and how she and her siblings would miss school in order to help process the tobacco before it could be taken to market. After high school Mrs. Nixon worked in several different factories until the age of 59, and discusses her experiences going on strike and participating in the picket line at the sheet metal factory she worked at. Mrs. Nixon describes her family, including how she met her husband on a blind date and her daughter's type 1 diabetes, explaining the effect that had on her return to "public work" and how she dealt with her daughter's insulin reactions at school.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.

Textile workers
Manufacturing industries--Employees

Nixon, Mary W., 1941-

Tobacco farms
Textile workers
Mills and mill-work
Strikes and lockouts
Labor unions
Diabetes
Diabetes in children

North Carolina--Hamptonville
North Carolina--Yadkin County

Interviews
Oral histories

1940-2000

David Goldfield student project on change in the Charlotte region

Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city

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