- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Yates Heafner, Betty Hinson, and Laurie Rushmeyer Interviews
- Creator:
- Heafner, Yates
Hinson, Betty
Rushmeyer, Laurie - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Labor unions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions--Organizing
Textile workers
United States. National Recovery Administration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, 35.48736, -80.62173
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, 35.24292, -81.0373 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Yates Heafner was a mediator for the Textile Labor Relations Board. Betty Hinson was a looper at Belmont Hosiery in Belmont, N.C. Laurie Rushmeyer was a textile worker at Fieldcrest- Cannon Mills in Kannopolis, N.C. who was a union organizer in the 1990s.
Heafner discusses his work with Textile Labor Relations Board during the 1930s. Hinson discusses her involement in the Uprising of '34 documentary, her memories of her parents and grandparents work, and her childhood in a mill village. Rushmeyer discusses working conditions at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C., during the 1990s, and union organzing. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0360
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/101
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- 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/40/
- 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):
- Yates Heafner, Betty Hinson, and Laurie Rushmeyer, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0360, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 01:59:28
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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