Record #:

34644

Author(s):

Cecelski, David

Abstract:

At the beginning of World War II, Arthur Miller, before he became a world-renowned playwright, recorded interviews with civilians in North Carolina. Outside of Wilmington, he discussed the impacts on the shipping industry, African-American workers and strikes, and wartime attitudes against fascism. The interviews comment on the industry and population boom brought in by the wartime effort, as well as lament the loss of small-town life and cultural changes.

Source:

North Carolina Literary Review (NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2014, p48-59, il, por, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Industry; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Shipbuilding; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Wilmington; Wilmington--Race relations