Leonard and Mattie Knight Interview 3, 12 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0468

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Leonard and Mattie Knight Interview 3

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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

Creation: 12 August 1991

Creator

From the Collection: Stoney, George C. (Person)
From the Collection: Helfand, Judith (Person)

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Leonard Knight was a doffer at various textile mills, including the Cherokee Mill in Knoxville, Tenn. Mattie Knight was a weaver at various textile mills, including the Cherokee Mill in Knoxville, Tenn.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:34 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Leonard and Mattie Knight discuss Lucille Thornburgh, a union organizer in Knoxville, the reasons that they did not choose to live in mill villages, and they show the filmmakers around the exterior of the closed Brookside Mill.