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Size | 1 item |
Abstract | The collection is a typescript titled "Comments on Like a Family by a Son" by Leon Neal (1938-), a white consulting engineer and owner of Leon Neal's Wood & Word in Raleigh, N.C. In the unpublished manuscript, Neal provides commentary and critique on the 1987 book titled Like a family: the making of a Southern cotton mill world by historians Jacquelyn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. |
Creator | Neal, C. Leon (Cecil Leon), 1938- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Amy Morgan, June 2019
Encoded by: Laura Hart, June 2019
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
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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.
Back to TopThe 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 In the unpublished manuscript, Neal provides commentary and critique on the 1987 book titled Like a family : the making of a Southern cotton mill world by historians Jacquelyn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.
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