ACTWU Press Conference, 21 August 1991

Item

Identifier: L1995-13_AV0688

Staff Only

Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates

21 August 1991

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Bruce Raynor was an official with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Robert Steele was a textile mill worker in Kannapolis, N.C. Cynthia Haynes was a textile mill worker in Kannapolis, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (28:46 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

The first half of this video consists of a union rally by Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) members. The second half of the video consists of a press conference given by ACTWU to discuss the results of a inconclusive election that occurred at the Fieldcrest-Cannon plant in Kannapolis, N.C.