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Harriet L. Herring

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By Harriet L. Herring

Oral history interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976

Herring, Harriet L. · 2006

Oral history interview with the sociologist Harriet L. Herring, recorded on February 5, 1976 and issued in 2006. Herring worked at the Institute for Research in Social Science at Chapel Hill under Howard Washington Odum, and topics include North Carolina textile workers, Meredith College and women sociologists.

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  1. The University Press publishes Harriet L. Herring's study of mill villages Herring, a research associate of the Institute for Research in Social Science, had visited 322 of the state's roughly 500 mills after the manufacturers refused formal cooperation. It was the first systematic look at mill communities. Chase mailed copies to leading textile men, including Charles A. Cannon, as a model of social research. People: Harry Woodburn ChaseSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 396-397

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