Charlie Wetzel, Elaine Pruitt, Bill Pruitt, and Roger Moore Interviews
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Wetzel, Charlie
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Charlie Wetzel talks about his role in the mill and shows the filmmakers various historic artifacts that came from or were associated with the mills and mill life.Elaine Pruitt talks with George Stoney about potential research for the film (names, places, etc.).Roger Moore talks with Stoney about the process of making the documentary and what Stoney hopes to accomplish through making the film.Bill Pruitt's dialogue is minor and his role in this video is unclear.Charlie Wetzell was a textile manager and yarn salesman at the Stowe Mill in Belmont, N.C., and later worked for either a historical society or historic site in Gastonia, N.C.Elaine Pruitt is a Winston-Salem, N.C. history teacher and an assistant researcher on the film.Roger Moore was a reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal.Bill Pruitt was the son of a mill worker.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Arista Cotton Mill
- Christianity
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Communicable Diseases
- Cotton Textile Industry
- Eagle Yarn Mills (Belmont, Gaston County, N.C.)
- Employees
- Employment
- Evans, Walker, 1903 1975
- Factories
- Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874 1940
- Housing
- Industrial Management
- Journalists
- Labor
- Labor Unions
- Loray Mill
- Organizing
- R.L. Stowe Mills
- R.L. Stowe Mills (Belmont, N.C.)
- Religious Aspects
- Reporters And Reporting
- Strikes And Lockouts
- Textile Factories
- Textile Industry
- Textile Manufacturers
- Textile Workers
- Transmission
- Unfair Labor Practices
- United States
- United States. National Recovery Administration
- Wages
- Working Class African Americans