Record #:

41161

Author(s):

Filene, Dr. Benjamin

Abstract:

Interviews between Museum Studies graduate students and former textile mill employees revealed how blurred racial segregation boundaries in Greensboro mill villages created a relationship unique in the Jim Crow era.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 57 Issue 1, Fall 2017, p10-13

Subject(s):

Textile mill villages--North Carolina--Greensboro; Cone Mills (Greensboro); Segregation--Jim Crow laws; Textile towns--see also textile mill villages ; University of North Carolina Greensboro--Department of History--Museum Studies ; Mill system--Greensboro--racial segregation; African American mill villages--Greensboro--East White Oak; African American mill villages--Greensboro--Franklin Richmond; Mill villages--Greensboro--White Oak; Mill villages--Greensboro--White Oak--Buddy Owens; Greensboro--museum exhibitions--The Fabric of Memory: The Cone Mill Villages ; Greensboro--museum exhibitions--Revolution Mill ; Black YMCAs--North Carolina--East White Oak Community Center