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Oral history interview with L. Worth Harris, June 11, 1980 interview H-0164, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Summary: L. Worth Harris grew up near Charlotte, North Carolina, a city that became a hub of the freight business in the early and middle of the 20th century. Harris contributed to this development, starting his own trucking company in the early 1930s shortly after graduating from business school. In this interview he describes navigating the powerful unions; shipping textiles to New York City; and ultimately selling his business rather than merging with another one in the mid-1960s. He also seeks to explain why trucks replaced trains as the region's principal transportation vehicle, and why Charlotte became the center of the freight business. This interview offers a look at the growth of an important southern business.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Duration: 00:55:11.
Interview participants: L. Worth Harris, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer.
Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill 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 Nov. 26, 2008).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 104 kilobytes, 101 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, interview H-0164, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 23 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.
Subject:
Harris, L. Worth 1908-1998 Interviews
Businesspeople North Carolina Charlotte Interviews
Transportation United States
Trucking North Carolina Charlotte Employees Interviews
Trucking North Carolina Charlotte Management
Charlotte (N.C.) Commerce

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