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LYNNE ALLRED
PAPERS, ca. 1976
UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 189
   
   
Size:
3 items.
   
Locales: Gastonia (N.C.).
   
Bulk Dates: Ca. 1976.
   
Languages: English.
   
Summary: Material related to her research on the textile workers strike in Gastonia in 1929. Includes a copy of her paper, "The Gastonia Strike of 1929: Social and Judicial Injustice," and interviews (cassette tapes) by Allred with LeGette Blythe (who covered the strike as a reporter for the Charlotte Observer) and Ralph Glenn (a high school teacher in Gastonia when the strike occurred).
Index Terms:
Allred, Lynne. The Gastonia Strike of 1929.
  Blythe, LeGette, 1900- --Interviews.
  Gastonia (N.C.)--History.
  Gastonia (N.C.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
  Glenn, Ralph--Interviews.
  National Textile Workers Union--Trials, litigation, etc.
  Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--North Carolina--Gastonia.
  Textile Workers' Strike, Gastonia, N.C., 1929.
  Trade-unions--Textile workers--Southern states.
  Trials (Conspiracy)--Gastonia (N.C.)
   
Sources: Gift of Lynne Allred, ca. 1976.
   
Access: Unrestricted.
   
Copyright: Not held by UNC Charlotte Library.
   
Citation: Lynne Allred Collection, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Library.
   
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Compilers: Randy Penninger, 1993.
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