Lucille Thornburgh, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers and Connie Leper Interview, 29 December 1991
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Scope and Contents of 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: 29 December 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
Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn. Roy Wade was a union organizer for ACTWU. Don Rodgers was a union organizer for ACTWU. Connie Leper was an organizer with Piedmont Peace Project in Kannapolis, N.C.
Extent
1 item(s) (video (29:55 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Thornburgh, Wade, Rodgers, and Leper discuss how companies use footage of the textile workers' strike of 1934 as a way to convince employees not join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), also discussed is the issue of race and union organizing.
Subject
- Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Organization)
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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