| Interviewee | POWELL, Steve (b. 1945) |
| Interview ID # | OH 1652 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in McKinney public schools; work as cotton picker for local farmers; parents’ jobs in the mill; family life on “the mill block;” importance of the New Deal; memories of 1948 tornado; social life in McKinney; nature of work at the mill; union organizing; determination to earn an education so as not to have to work in the mill any longer; graduation from Baylor University; family history. |
| Interviewer(s) | Deborah Kilgore |
| Physical Description | 46 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
