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Title
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Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
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Creator
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Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
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Date Created
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1998-10-15
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
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Description
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Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts his childhood growing up in the Charlotte area during World War II and his experiences attending Duke University in the 1940s and 1950s. The son of a textil...
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LeGette Blythe oral history interview 2, circa 1976
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Creator
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Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993
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Date Created
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1976
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Subjects--Topical
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Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry, Labor unions and communism, Police brutality, Textile workers--Labor unions, Mills and mill-work
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Description
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Author and former Charlotte Observer reporter LeGette Blythe shares his eyewitness account of the 1929 Loray Mill strike approximately forty-five years after the event took place. Mr. Blythe describes how the chaotic strike atmosphere escalated in...
