Knoxville (Tenn.)

Foots Weaver discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, and union organizing. Foots Weaver, C.R. Weaver, and Sue Dunlap discuss Foots Weaver's involvement in the United Textile Workers of America, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and the impact that Foots Weaver's organizing past has had on C.R. Weaver and Sue Dunlap.

Weaver discusses union organization, the NRA, the textile workers strike of 1934, Franklin Roosevelt the aftermath of the strike, and other topics.

Weaver discusses work at the Cherokee Spinning Company, his union organizing, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blacklisted and other topics.

Thornburgh, Weaver, and Logsdon discuss the textile worker's strike of 1834, organizing a union at their mill, the working conditions of the mill and other topics.

Turner discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, and the impact of that strike.

Turner discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blackballed and working in the textile mills.

Turner discusses the NRA, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blacklisted, mill villages, the aftermath of the strike and other topics.

Thornburgh, Weaver, and Coleman discuss union organizing efforts, striking, picket lines, anit-union efforts, communism, and their leadership roles.

Thornburgh, Weaver, and Coleman discuss their first union strike and lockout. Thornburgh describes being blacklisted and the role of newspapers in spreading word about the union.

Lodgson discusses working in a textile mill, blacklisting, his post textile career, and the current state of the textile industry. Weaver discuss his career as textile worker, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and organizing the union.

Logsdon discusses working at Cherokee Mills, the impact of the National Recovery Act, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blacklisted, Foots Weaver and Lucille Thornburgh.

Homer Logsdon discusses working as a weaver at Cherokee Spinning Company in Knoxville, Tenn., helping to organize a union at Cherokee, the textile workers's strike of 1934, the aftermath of the strike, people who were blacklisted, his work after he left the textile industry and other topics. Thelma Blanton Logsdon discusses growing up in the mill village at Kramerton, N.C., going to work at a textile mill and other topics.

Jacobs, Thornburgh and the union organizers discuss racism and gender discrimination in the mills, the ways in which the union helped to fight the above, and other topics.

Leonard and Mattie Knight discuss their careers as textile workers, the impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal on life in the mills, their opinions of the 1934 textile workers' strike and other topics.

Leonard and Mattie Knight discuss how going to the eight hour day affected their lives, their recollections of the 1934 textile workers's strike, and the impact that drives for greater efficiency had on their work lives.

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.

Leonard Knight and Mattie Knight discuss working at Cherokee Spinning Company, the impact of Roosevelt's labor and social policies had on them, how the traveled around the country working various textile mills, and other topics.

Leonard Knight and Mattie Knight discuss the travels as cotton mill workers and their family relationships.

The textile workers in this video were working to unionize Cannon Mills in 1991. The workers read letters written by various participants of the 1934 strike and react to their contents. Thornburgh discusses her involvement with the textile workers' strike of 1934, the letters she wrote to Washington, D.C., and how the strike has impacted her life.

Thornburgh, Taylor and Childs discuss some of the songs sung in Knoxville, Tenn. during the textile workers' strike of 1934, the significance of the history of the strike, why the strike has been forgotten, the echos of the strike that Taylor and Childs have found in their own organizing work, and looking at the strike as a worker led movement. Jacobs discusses dealing with union members problems after the textile workers' strike of 1934.