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Interview with Elizabeth Moody Wilson
Elizabeth Moody Wilson, Fort Mill Manufacturing Company, Springs Industries, and Nancy Biggs Thomas Wofford
OH 371
This interview with Elizabeth Moody Wilson was conducted by Nancy Thomas Wofford for her 1984 Winthrop thesis titled, Fort Mill: Transition From A Farming To A Textile Community, 1880-1920. Subjects include Fort Mill Manufacturing Co., Springs Industries, Ivey’s Mill in Fort Mill, Catawba Power Company. The Evolution of the Early Cotton Textile Mills in York County, SC.
Elizabeth Allison Moody Wilson (1895-1986) was born in Hall County, Georgia where she worked in the cotton fields. She began working for Springs in 1926 in the spinning room and moved to the weaving room one year later. She discusses going to work picking cotton at a young age and picking 300 pounds of cotton a day at 12 years old. At 14 she got her first mill job at 14 years old in the spinning room at the Pacolet Manufacturing Company. By 1926 she was working in the Fort Mill Manufacturing Company. She discusses many aspects of Mill life including working while having children at home and children working in the mills at age 14 with permits, costs of everyday items, union organizers, child labor laws, and how the Mill operated on a daily basis. She discusses mill village life living in Fort Mill generally and the flood of 1916.
* The interview generally starts around the 5-minute mark. The audio has an echo of the same interview in the background.
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Interview with Elizabeth H. Alston
Elizabeth H. Alston
OH 130
IN PROCESSING
Ms. Alston discusses her educational background, school related programs and the church's role in African American community affairs.
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Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark - OH 129
Septima Poinsette Clark
OH 129
This interview with Septima P. Clark was conducted by Mary Ann Wright for a Winthrop College class project on April 10, 1981. Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) was an African-American educator and Civil Rights Activist from Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Clark discusses her family background and the influence that had on her life. Her mother was raised in Haiti and taught by the English while her father was a slave on the Joel Poinsett plantation. She details her experience growing up in Charleston during segregation and the struggle for education. Dr. Clark discusses her career as an educator and activist for education. Dr. Clark was pivotal in the voter registration movement across the South. She developed and led many handwriting clinics and education workshops in her Citizenship Education Program. Her work with the NAACP and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is discussed in detail. Dr. Clark has received many awards and recognition including the Living Legacy Award given to her by President Carter and her honorary Doctorate of Letters degree from the College of Charleston.
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Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark - OH 131
Septima Poinsette Clark
OH 131
This interview is conducted by Dena Gray with Mrs. Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) for a Winthrop College class project. Mrs. Clark was an African-American educator and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. Mrs. Clark discusses her work as an African-American educator in the Deep South, and her struggle for equal pay for all teachers. Mrs. Clark also discusses her work with the voter registration programs in the South as part of the effort to assist more African-Americans to register to vote as well as the discriminatory practices they had to overcome. Mrs. Clark details her work with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement as well as her involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. While describing her background and childhood, Mrs. Clark illustrates the disparity between white and black communities in the South.
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Interview with William Leonard Culp - OH 133
William Leonard Culp
OH 133
This interview was conducted with William Leonard Culp on May 5, 1981. Mr. Culp was Director of the Physical Plant (Facilities Management) at Winthrop College. Mr. Culp discusses Winthrop’s buildings and equipment, including the water tank, Tillman Hall, and its basement, clocks, and post office.
William Leonard “Bill” Culp (1920-2007) was born in 1920 on Winthrop’s campus in the house that once stood behind the Little Chapel and was the son of Leonard Parks Culp (1887-1978) who served as the director of Winthrop’s Physical Plant (later called Facilities Management) for 39 years. Bill Culp attended Macfeat and Winthrop Training School later succeeding his father. Bill Culp began working at Winthrop in 1951 continued through 2001 in the Physical Plant Department. He was well known as “a walking encyclopedia of Winthrop lore” and a gifted story teller. During his Winthrop tenure he received the first ever Winthrop Employee of the Month Award in 1984, a Presidential Citation in 1995, and Winthrop’s Chiller Plant was named in his honor in 1997.
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Interview with Queen Ann Butler Roseborough Davis - OH 124
Queen Ann Butler Roseborough Davis
OH 124
This interview was conducted by Reginald Gladney with Queen Ann Butler Roseborough Davis (b. 1938 for his Oral History Project. Mrs. Davis was born in Ridgeway, SC to Rev. James R. Butler (1903-2001) and Mary Green Butler (1910-1987). She discusses her childhood and the difficulties experienced by the black community in rural South Carolina during the Jim Crow period as well as the differences she experienced in the North during this time. She discusses the influences she had growing up that inspired her to join the Civil Rights Movement. Mrs. Davis also discusses the effects of the Movement in Winnsboro, South Carolina and more rural areas in general. Mrs. Davis attended Johnson C. Smith University for her BA in English and French and Winthrop College for her Master of Arts in Teaching. She details her experiences and opinion on the differences in education between the black and white communities. As well as her influences and decision to join the National Negro Council of Women (NCNW) and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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Interview with Sam J. Ervin - OH 123
Sam J. Ervin Jr.
OH 123
In his March 7, 1981 interview with John Cissell, Sam Ervin recounts his work as a U.S. Senator for North Carolina. Ervin explains his defense of Jim Crow Laws and his involvement in an investigative committee that unveiled the Watergate Scandal. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with James Thomas Funderburk - OH 137
James Thomas Funderburk
OH 137
This interview was conducted with Chester Mayor James Thomas Funderburk (1922-1983) concerning the mysterious death of eighteen-year-old black man Mickey McClinton which sparked a series of protests in Chester, SC during the fall of 1979. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized these protests. Mickey McClinton’s death was initially determined to be the result of a hit-and-run accident, but rumors quickly spread that McClinton was the victim of a racially motivated slaying sparking the protests. Mayor Funderburk (Mayor of Chester, SC 1975-1983) discusses the incident and how the events of unfolded during the fall of 1979. Subjects include civil rights in Chester; and social unrest among blacks in Chester.
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Interview with Harold Brite Gilbreth
Harold Brite Gilbreth
OH 148
Dr. Harold Brite Gilbreth (1908-1988) worked at Winthrop College from 1935-1974 as a professor of Business, Chairman of the Department of Business and Economics, and as the Director of Graduate Studies. In this interview Dr. Gilbreth discusses Winthrop College's move to Coeducation which became reality in 1974. He also discusses the Philosophy of Business and Vocational Education.
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Interview with Horace Goggins
Horace Goggins
OH 132
In his April 29, 1981 interview with Viola Sherrill, Horace Goggins shares the story of how he became a dentist, his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, and how he supports his wife’s political career. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Juanita Goggins
Juanita W. Goggins
OH 074
In her April 14, 1981 interview with Shannon Port, Juanita Goggins recalls the details of her political career. In particular, Goggins addresses the obstacles she faced during her career and what she accomplished despite of those obstacles. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Margaret Gregg
Margaret Gregg
OH 152
This interview is conducted by Geoffrey Wilcox with Mrs. Margaret Henrietta Gregg (1908-1987), a professor of English at Winthrop College from 1941 to 1973,. Mrs. Gregg had a letter she wrote to the community advocating for racial equality published in the local newspaper the Rock Hill Herald. She was a member of Winthrop University faculty and discusses her experience during the Civil Rights movement. She details her involvement in the movement as well as her experiences in the community during that time.
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Interview with Alberta Tucker Grimes - OH 139
Alberta Tucker Grimes
OH 139
This interview was conducted with Alberta Tucker Grimes (1909-2002) who was an educator and counselor from Greenville, South Carolina. Alberta Grimes started the first Head Start program for the state of South Carolina in Greenville, SC. Her work became the standard and model for similar programs that sprouted throughout the state. In this interview, she discusses her background as an educator, her education in the African American schools during segregation, her teaching career on boards and committees, and her personal life. The interview also includes information about Charles Hall, a famous psychologist in Washington, Jessie Jackson as a student and financing of African American education.
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Interview with Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson
Isaac Samuel Leevy Johnson
OH 143
The former South Carolina General Assembly member discusses his family background, influences, first experience with racism, philosophies, the federal desegregation plan, work in the South Carolina House of Representatives, absence of African Americans in the South Carolina Senate and problems and solutions concerning African Americans.
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Interview with Jamie Johnson
Jamie Johnson
OH 128
IN PROCESSING
Subjects include background information, influences on her life, subject of her book and her influence on other people's lives.
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Interview with Arnetta Gladden Mackey - OH 639
Arnetta Gladden Mackey
OH 639
This collection includes an interview with Arnetta Gladden Mackey (1948-2009) who, along with Delores Johnson Hurt, was one of the first two undergraduate students admitted to Winthrop in 1964. She graduated from Winthrop in 1967. She discusses her childhood, her family, the scholarship that allowed her to attend Winthrop, her experience coming into an all-white school, her participation in school events, the reactions of groups within the community, and her experience with the other students at Winthrop.
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Interview with Willie T. "Dub" Massey - OH 138
Willie T. Massey
OH 138
In his April 27th, 1981 interview with Phil O’Quinn, Rev. Willie T. "Dub" Massey recollects his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the Friendship 9 protestors and non-violent activists. Massey retells the preparation and events leading up to the sit-in at McCrory’s lunch counter. Massey also shares the negative effects he experienced with his involvement as an activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, in particular, his arrest from the McCrory’s sit-in. Massey concludes his interview with advice and hope for the black community. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Marion W. McLester
Marion W. McLester
OH 146
Dr. Marion Woodward Wright McLester (1895-1994) was a civic leader and a principal and public school teacher in Sumter County, South Carolina from 1919 to 1964. Subjects include her background, her grandparents and slavery, voting for African Americans, education, family life, farm life and the roles of church and African American women.
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Interview with Hillard McMoore
Hillard McMoore
OH 135
IN PROCESSING
Subjects include background information on his life, who raised him, his marriages and where he lived.
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Interview with Marjorie Clinton McMurray - OH 147
Marjorie Clinton McMurray
OH 147
This interview was conducted with Marjorie Clinton McMurray (1911-2006) who was the first African American to write a column for The Lancaster News in Lancaster, SC. This recording begins partway through the interview. In this interview, Mrs. McMurray discusses her research into her family history, which includes several African Americans serving on the state legislature including Frederick Albert Clinton (1834-1890), who in addition to successful political career, was also a very successful farmer. She also discusses organizing a celebration for an important black history month in Lancaster County. She had trouble not only getting her ancestor recognized as black but also getting memorials and celebrations in place due to various committees blocking her proposals. She also discusses her research into Mt. Carmel A.M.E. Zion Church and the Mt. Carmel Campground it owned.
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Interview with Melvin Ernest "Ernie" Nunnery - OH 136
Melvin Ernest Nunnery
OH 136
This interview was conducted with South Carolina House Representative Melvin Ernest “Ernie” Nunnery (1951-1991) regarding the mysterious death of eighteen-year-old black man Mickey McClinton which sparked a series of protests in Chester, SC during the fall of 1979. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) organized these protests. Mickey McClinton’s death was initially determined to be the result of a hit-and-run accident, but rumors quickly spread that McClinton was the victim of a racially motivated slaying sparking the protests. Mr. Nunnery was a member of the South Carolina House of Representative from 1975-1982 and discusses the incident and how the events of unfolded during the fall of 1979. Subjects include civil rights in Chester; and social unrest among blacks in Chester. Subject Mr. Golden Frinks and Chester Civil Rights.
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Interview with Irving C. Pahl
Irving C. Pahl
OH 141
IN PROCESSING
Subjects include background information and when he entered the service. Colonel Irving C. Pahl represented the U.S. in Czechoslovakia when the country was invaded by Soviet troops in 1968.
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Interview with Jackie Robinson and Cedric Oglesby
Jackie Robinson and Cedric Oglesby
OH 154
IN PROCESSING
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Interview with Cynthia Plair Roddey - OH 642
Cynthia Plair Roddey and Integration
OH 642
In her interview with James D. Mackey on April 29, 1981, Cynthia Roddey shares her experiences at Winthrop from 1964-1967 as the first African American student admitted to Winthrop College. Roddey details the process of applying to Winthrop, the reaction she received from the Winthrop and Rock Hill community, and her participation in student life. Roddey includes her insight on race relations today and her hopes for the future. This interview was conducted for a student history project.