We would like to thank David Whisnant for suggesting this project to us;  Jerry Cotten and Photographic Services of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Alice Cotten and all the people in the North Carolina Collection for their help in gathering and organizing our information; The University of North Carolina Press and John A. Salmond for use of images and text from his book, Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike; The Charlotte Observer and The Gastonia Gazette for the gracious use of their photographs and text; and the Center for Teaching and Learning without whose help this project could not have been completed.
 
 
 
 Copyright and Research Information

For more information on this subject, try: Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike by John Salmond, published 1995 by UNC Press, Chapel Hill; Strike! by Mary Heaton Vorse, a radical journalist who was one of the reporters who covered the strike, published by H. Liveright, New York, 1930; To Make My Bread, a novelisitc account of the movement of Appalachian people from the mountains to the mills, published by Grace Lumpkin in 1932 by the Macaulay Company in New York; Habits of Industry,  a book on  life in a Southern mill village, by Allen Tullos, published in 1989 by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill; Like a Family, a look at the cotton industry in the South, edited by Jacquelyn Hall, published in 1987 by the UNC Press, Chapel Hill.  There are also countless articles available from the North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The Gastonia Daily Gazette, the Charlotte Observer, the Raleigh News & Observer, and other local and regional papers are also available there on microfilm.

 
This page copyright 1998, Simon Saunders and Claire Jarvis.  Any photographic or textual copyrights revert to the owners.  We have the permission of the Gastonia Gazette, the UNC Press, the Charlotte Observer,  and the North Carolina Collection at UNC -- Chapel Hill for this site ONLY.    You must have permission from the owners to use any of the images/text on this site.