Oral history interview with Alice Grogan Hardin, May 2, 1980
Subtitle: interview H-0248, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Hardin, Grover, interviewee; Tullos, Allen, 1950- 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: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Women textile workers; Textile factories; Employees; Farm life; Social life and customs; Pellagra; Patients; Textile workers; Company towns; Woodside Mills (Greenville, S.C.)
Other titles: Interview H-0248, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Alice Grogan Hardin, May 2, 1980; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Alice Grogan Hardin grew up on a farm in Greenville County, SC, working there until financial trouble pushed her family into textile mill work. Grogan remembers farm work and mill work in this interview, offering insights on rural southern life in the first half of the 20th century. Her memories of Woodside Mill, the largest in the South, are largely positive: the mill fostered a strong community, and the only strike she remembers seemed to end without incident. This interview provides a colorful glimpse into the patterns of rural southern life.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on January 30, 2008).

Interview participants: Alice Grogan Hardin, interviewee; Grover Hardin, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer.

Duration: 00:54:27.

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

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, 1974-1980, interview H-0248, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 23 p.

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

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