- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Faye Knight, Louise Warren, and Betty Bendimire oral history interview, 2010-03-31
- Creator:
- Knight, Faye
Warren, Louise
Bendimire, Betty - Contributor to Resource:
- LaPorte, Philip A.
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2010-03-31
- Subject:
- Women textile workers
Textile industry--Labor unions--Organizing
Labor unions--Political Activity
S.H. Kress & Co.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Sumter County, 32.03997, -84.19704
United States, Georgia, Sumter County, Americus, 32.07239, -84.23269 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
audiocassettes
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Faye Knight was born in Americus, Georgia and graduated from Americus High School in 1947. Her first job was as a clerk at S.H. Kress Company. Knight began her career with the Manhattan Shirt Company in 1948, joining the union shortly after being hired. She served in several union roles during her tenure, including Vice President, President, and political action chairman. Knight retired in 1992. Louise Warren was born in Americus, Georgia and graduated from Americus High School. After working at S.H. Kress Company and the McClesky Peanut Mills, Warren began working at Manhattan Shirt Company in 1943. Warren joined the union shortly after being hired and over the course of her employment served as Insurance Secretary, Vice President, President, and Chairman. She retired from the company in 1988.
Faye Knight with Louise Warren and Betty Bendimire (interviewed by Philip LaPorte) discuss their work at the Manhattan Shirt Company and their participation in the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Local 226, in Americus, Georgia. The women detail their early years, education, and pre-union work history. They also talk about being union members: benefits, supporting their union, the difficulties of working in an anti-union town, the pressures of being union officers, and labor politics in the state of Georgia. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/6089
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/labor:6089/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-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Knight, Faye, Louise Warren, and Betty Bendimire, interviewed by Philip LaPorte, March 31, 2010, Voices of Labor Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:23:55
- 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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