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[Identification of item], in the Comments on Like a Family by a Son #05409-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Leon Neal in December 2008 (Acc. 101042).

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Encoded by: Laura Hart, June 2019

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2021

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Company towns--Southern States--History.
• Cotton textile industry--North Carolina--Employees.
• Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd--Like a family : the making of a Southern cotton mill world--Criticism and interpretation.
• Neal, C. Leon (Cecil Leon), 1938-
• Rutherford County (N.C.)--History.
• Textile factories--Southern States--History.

• Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series H: Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1986

Leon Neal (1938-), a consulting engineer and owner of Leon Neal's Wood & Word in Raleigh, N.C., was the son of textile mill workers in Caroleen, N.C.

The collection is a typescript titled "Comments on Like a Family by a Son" by Leon Neal (1938-). In the unpublished manuscript, Neal provides commentary and critique on the 1987 book titled Like a family : the making of a Southern cotton mill world by historians Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Lu Ann Jones, Robert Rodgers Korstad, et al. Neal writes in part from his own personal experience growing up in the company-owned mill village in Caroleen, N.C., as the son of textile workers.