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- Title
- Inverview with Mike Mcleod, 2021 August 16
- Date(s)
- 2021-08-16
- Contributor(s)
- Mcleod, Mike, 1941- (interviewee), Plasky, Joseph G. (interviewer)
- Description
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Mike discusses working multiple assignments in manufacturing jobs at Kinston, North Carolina. He relates his involvement with promoting the first Black supervisor at Kinston. He talks about union organizing attempts and how he developed a relationship with plant manager (Ed Woolard) and how that relationship diverted union efforts. He discusses a period working with the Akron, Ohio market before being transferred to the export industrial business where he worked with Joe Carroll in the Far...
Show moreMike discusses working multiple assignments in manufacturing jobs at Kinston, North Carolina. He relates his involvement with promoting the first Black supervisor at Kinston. He talks about union organizing attempts and how he developed a relationship with plant manager (Ed Woolard) and how that relationship diverted union efforts. He discusses a period working with the Akron, Ohio market before being transferred to the export industrial business where he worked with Joe Carroll in the Far East and South America markets. He also describes the Cordura business and his effort to start a color seal Cordura business with the military.
Show less - Collection ID
- Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department (Accession 2010.215)
- Hagley ID
- 2010215_20210816_Mcleod
- Collection
- Oral history interviews with former employees of DuPont Company's Textile Fibers Department