Alma Miller, Rev. Richard Lisk, and Annie Honeycutt Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0357

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Alma Miller, Rev. Richard Lisk, and Annie Honeycutt Interviews

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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: 1987-1995

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

Rev. Richard Lisk is the son of Red Lisk and a chaplain in the armed forces. Alma Miller was a textile worker at the Brown Mill in Concord, N.C. She was the sister in-law of Red Lisk and the sister of Rev. Frank Miller. Annie Honeycutt was a textile worker at the Brown Mill in Concord, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (1:58:52 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Lisk discusses his childhood in the mill village, his father, and his father's work as a union organizer. Miller discusses her quilting, Red Lisk, working in the textile mill, her opinions on the union, and other topics. Honeycutt discusses her memories of Red Lisk, the union, and the aftermath of the textile workers' strike of 1934.