- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Dorothy Bolden oral history interview, 1995-08-31
- Creator:
- Bolden, Dorothy, 1923-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lutz, Christine
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1995-08-31
- Subject:
- Labor unions, Black
Labor unions--Organizing
Household employees--Labor unions - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
audiocassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Dorothy Bolden was born during the 1920s in Vine City, Georgia. She attended Washington High School through the eleventh grade. Bolden served as an Atlanta domestic worker for 41 years. She became politically active in the 1960s, and founded the National Domestic Workers Union in 1968. She also served as vice-president of the Black Women Coalition of Atlanta, and worked for both the State and National Departments of Labor.
Bolden discusses her background—childhood in the African American community in Atlanta during the Great Depression, her faith, marriage, and children. She also talks about the effects of World War II on her family—loss of all male relatives. She discusses racial violence during the 1950s and 1960s. Regarding inter-racial episodes Bolden states, “They [whites] did some awful things to you, you know, to make you want to fight them.” An important aspect of Bolden’s life is her involvement in the civil rights movement—Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Ku Klux Klan, and Women’s rights. She also had a leading role in organizing domestic workers c.1968 (Domestic Workers Union) and speaks of the problems with other unions. Finally, Bolden discusses her part in trying to save historic Vine City. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6066
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/labor:6066/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Bolden, Dorothy, interviewed by Chris Lutz, August 31, 1995, Voices of Labor Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:51:35
- Original Collection:
- Voices of Labor Oral History Project
http://research.library.gsu.edu/VoicesofLabor
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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