Oral history interview with Dora Scott Miller, June 6, 1979 [electronic resource] : interview H-0211, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Dora Scott Miller grew up in Apex, NC, and finished high school before marrying and taking a job at the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company in Durham, where she spent nearly four decades. During her tenure there, Miller watched the company evolve into a racially integrated, unionized company. But much of this interview focuses on her experiences there before World War II, when a non-union workforce primarily consisting of black women worked long hours for little pay under white foremen. Miller and her coworkers kept their mouths shut to keep their jobs, but maintained enough strength to vote in a union when it arrived and to form a supportive community outside of the workplace. This interview should prove a rich source of information for researchers interested in southern industrial work from the perspective of an African American woman.
Electronic resources
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Duration: 01:17:18.Interview participants: Dora Scott Miller, interviewee; Beverly Jones, interviewer.Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.Title from menu page (viewed on March 13, 2008).
- Type of Computer File or Data Note:
- Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 196.6 kilobytes, 141.5 megabytes.
- Original Version Note:
- Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview H-0211, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Sharon King. Original transcript: 44 p.
- Funding Information Note:
- Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.
- System Details Note:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player.
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- Subject:
- Miller, Dora Scott, 1906-1992 > Interviews.
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
African American women employees > North Carolina > Durham > Interviews.
Farm life > North Carolina > Apex.
Labor unions, Black > North Carolina > Durham.
Shop stewards > North Carolina > Durham.
Tobacco industry > North Carolina > Durham.
Tobacco workers > Health and hygiene > North Carolina > Durham.
Tobacco workers > Labor unions > North Carolina > Durham.
Tobacco workers > North Carolina > Durham > Race relations.
Women tobacco workers > North Carolina > Durham > Interviews.
Women tobacco workers > North Carolina > Durham > Social conditions.
Apex (N.C.) > Race relations. - Genre:
- Oral histories.
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| 520 | . | ‡aDora Scott Miller grew up in Apex, NC, and finished high school before marrying and taking a job at the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company in Durham, where she spent nearly four decades. During her tenure there, Miller watched the company evolve into a racially integrated, unionized company. But much of this interview focuses on her experiences there before World War II, when a non-union workforce primarily consisting of black women worked long hours for little pay under white foremen. Miller and her coworkers kept their mouths shut to keep their jobs, but maintained enough strength to vote in a union when it arrived and to form a supportive community outside of the workplace. This interview should prove a rich source of information for researchers interested in southern industrial work from the perspective of an African American woman. | |
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