Oral history interview with Millie Tripp, August 12, 1994
Subtitle: interview K-0112, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Pawlewicz, Valerie, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Furniture industry and trade; Employees; Single mothers; Social life and customs; Women; Employment; Plant shutdowns; Consolidation and merger of corporations; White Furniture Company
Other titles: Interview K-0112, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Millie Tripp, August 12, 1994; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Millie Tripp spent forty years at the White Furniture Factory in Mebane, NC, joining the company out of high school in 1950 and staying there until moving to the company's corporate office in 1990. Tripp was one of a handful of employees to keep her job after the plant closed. In this interview, she describes her long tenure at the factory; the challenges of being a working single mother; and her response to the plant closing and the merger that preceded it, including her decision to commute for an hour to her new workplace. This interview presents a potentially useful look at the working life of a single mother in the changing South.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on Dec. 5, 2008).

Interview participants: Millie Tripp, interviewee; Valerie Pawlewicz, interviewer.

Duration: 00:55:41.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0112, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jackie Gorman. Original transcript: 25 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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