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Interview with Samuel Saye Williams, Jr. - OH 551
Samuel Saye Williams Jr., Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company, Bleachery, and Alexander Keith Windham
OH 551
In his May 16, 2017 interview with Alex Windham, Samuel Saye Williams, Jr. detailed his thoughts and memories of his time at the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company referred to locals as the Bleachery. Williams spoke of the time period of the 1960s through the 1970s. His discussions touched on the follow topics: Segregation; integration; race relations; plant management; day to day job responsibilities and actions; technology changes; worker attitudes; and his time as a mechanic at South Carolina Department of Transportation;
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Interview with Thomas L. "Pookie" Williams - OH 550
Thomas L. Williams, Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company, Bleachery, and Alexander Keith Windham
OH 550
In his June 5, 2017 interview with Alex Windham, Pookie Williams detailed his thoughts and memories of his time at the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company referred to locals as the Bleachery. Williams spoke of the time period of the 1950s through 2017 and on the follow topics: Segregation, integration, race relations, plant management, day to day job responsibilities and actions, technology changes, the buyout of the Bleachery by Springs, worker attitudes, the decline of the Bleachery, family, and finally retirement to the year 2017.
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Interview with Wilma
Wilma
OH 506
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson
OH 155
This is a series of interviews focusing on mill life in York County, South Carolina. Topics include background and family life, work attitudes and experience, J. P. Stevens Cotton Mills, Springs Cotton Mills in Fort Mill, mill villages, race relations, unionization and mill prospects for the future.
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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 James Russell Wilson Sr. and Alan Whiteside
James Russell Wilson Sr. and Alan Whiteside
OH 084
This is a collection of interviews done in a series by students as an oral history project. Some of the interviews were used for the Bicentennial edition of the Lancaster News, April 9, 1976.
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Interview with Lucy Wilson
Lucy Wilson
OH 484
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Melford Wilson - OH 079
Melford Alonzo Wilson
OH 079
This interview was done by Debbie Mollycheck for articles for the Johnsonian (student newspaper). Debbie Mollycheck is a Winthrop College graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in 1976 and a Master of Science in 1979. The Wilson interview concerns his run for a Rock Hill City Council seat. Dr. Melford Wilson (1939-2024) was a Winthrop professor of Political Science for over fifty years, started the Winthrop Model United Nations, and served at one time as the director of the International Center and Vice President for Academic Affairs. In the interview, Dr. Wilson describes his decision to run for Rock Hill City Council and also discusses his experience during the campaign. During the discussion, he talks about the amount of registered voters in District Six and explains the makeup of District Six. Dr. Wilson would go on to win the seat on the Rock Hill City Council in 1978 and ran for reelection in 1979.
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Interview with W. H. Winborne
W. H. Winborne
OH 331
In his July 1984 interview with Michael Cooke, W. H. Winborne described his work with the Orangeburg Area Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation, the Family Health Center, and the outreach programs related to the foundation. Winborne discussed DHEC’s involvement with sickle cell anemia prevention, the foundation’s role, and the community’s response to the program efforts. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Wade Hampton Witherspoon
Wade Hampton Witherspoon
OH 134
This interview was conducted with Mr. Wade Hampton Witherspoon (1908-1996) and his wife Emma K. (possibly Kershaw) Witherspoon (1915-1995). The first half of the interview is with Emma Witherspoon and she discusses her family and childhood growing up in South Carolina. She discusses her education and attending college and then her teaching career, as well as her experiences living in South Carolina. The second part of the recording beginning at the 1:02:32 mark consists of the interview with Mr. W. H. Witherspoon. Mr. Witherspoon graduated from the Colored Normal Industrial Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina (now South Carolina State University) in 1930. He is a Rock Hill native attending Emmett Scott when it opened and later became principal on Emmett Scott High School from 1959-1967. In the interview Mr. Witherspoon discusses Rock Hill history, his childhood, his family, and his education. A large portion of his interview includes his discussion on the education of African Americans in South Carolina with a focus on secondary education. He touches on the Civil Rights movement in Rock Hill, SC towards the end of the interview.
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Interview with William D. Wolfe - VHP 022
William D. Wolfe
VHP 022
In his October 20, 2003 interview with Alan Garmendia, William D. Wolfe recollects about his time in the Navy during WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam. Wolfe shares the details of his work in the Navy on an experimental destroyer testing new sonar. The interview concludes with reminiscences of the South Pacific and pastimes of soldiers. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections Oral History Program.
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Interview with Mim Woodring
Mim Woodring
OH 333
IN PROCESSING
The Travelers (often referred to as “Gypsies”) are descendants of the Irish subculture of itinerant Irish men and women who emigrated from Ireland to the northern U.S. after the famine of 1840 and then migrated to the southeastern U.S. They settled in Aiken County, South Carolina in 1963. Interviewees include Peter Carroll, a Traveler who talks about the Traveler’s history, lifestyle and hopes for their children’s future, Joanne H. Spring, a newspaper reporter from North Augusta, who wrote about the Travelers, Mim Woodring of' the Aiken County Council, and Dudley Posey, a funeral director who describes burial practices of the Travelers.
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Interview with Zelma Wood
Zelma Wood
OH 474
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Alice Spearman Wright
Alice Norwood Spearman Wright
OH 025
IN PROCESSING
In this interview Mrs. Wright discusses her upbringing, her education at Columbia College and the University of Chicago, her trips to the Philippines and Russia in the 1920s and 1930s, her activities in the civil rights movement, her work with the South Carolina Council on Human Relations and her ideas on women's rights.
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Interview with Marion Allan Wright
Marion Allan Wright
OH 020
This interview was conducted with Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) who was a civil rights advocate and served as a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. South Carolina native, Marion Wright discusses his recollections and experiences growing up in Conway,SC, African Americans in Conway, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, influences on his life including August Kohn and Josiah Morse, his law practice in Conway, his student days at the University of South Carolina, Jesse Daniel Ames, Dorothy Tilly, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and its successor the Southern Regional Council, Judge J. Waties Waring of Charleston, and Mrs. Wright’s experiences. This interview focuses on a discussion about Senator Ben Tillman, Senator “Cotton” Ed Smith, and Governor Cole Blease.
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Interview with Marion Allan Wright and Alice Spearman Wright
Marion Allan Wright and Alice Norwood Spearman Wright
OH 024
This interview was conducted with Marion Allan Wright (1894-1983) who was a civil rights advocate and served as a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. Also interviewed was his wife Alice Buck Norwood Spearman Wright (1902-1989) who was a Civil Rights advocate and was an ardent supporter of racial equality and desegregation policies. She presided over the first integrated South Carolina Council on Human Relations. The interview with both Marion and Alice discusses their upbringing and influences and delve into the flowing topics: the Civil rights movement, interracial marriage, abolition of death penalty by Supreme Court, the ERA (commented on by Alice Wright also), and interest in education (Alice Wright).*
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Interview with Catherine Wycoff
Catherine Wycoff
OH 491
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Nellie Yost
Nellie Yost
OH 431
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
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Interview with Vivian Zeiders - OH 552
Vivian Zeiders, Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company, Bleachery, and Alexander Keith Windham
OH 552
In her June 6, 2017 interview with Alex Windham, Vivian Zeiders detailed her thoughts and memories of his time at the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company referred to locals as the Bleachery. Zeiders spoke of the time period of the 1970s through 2017 and on the follow topics: race relations, day to day job responsibilities and actions, technology changes, worker attitudes, the decline of the Bleachery, family, her other occupations up until the year 2017. Zeiders also offered her opinions on the Bleachery compared to other textile jobs.
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Interview with Saundra Zook
Saundra Zook
OH 430
IN PROCESSING
Interviews with extension members and agents throughout the country documenting the history and development of the extension movement in the U.S. The interviews describe homemaking, child bearing and family management in the small towns and rural areas where they live. They also discuss the role of extension homemakers groups in their lives.
