- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Lonnie Tracey and E. Lloyd Kirby Interviews
- Creator:
- Tracey, Lonnie
Kirby, E. Lloyd - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1994-06-14
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers
Labor unions
Cotton textile industry
Labor unions--Organizing
New Deal (1933-1939)
United Textile Workers of America
United States. National Recovery Administration - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, South Carolina, Cherokee County, Gaffney, 35.07179, -81.64982
United States, South Carolina, Spartanburg County, Pacolet, 34.89902, -81.76177
United States, South Carolina, Spartanburg County, Pacolet Mills, 34.92263, -81.7426 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Lonnie Tracey was a textile worker in Gaffney, S.C. E. Lloyd Kirby was a loom-fixer and union vice-president at Pacolet Manufacturing Company in Pacolet, S.C.
Tracey briefly discuss mills that were involved in the textile workers' strike of 1934 and a superintendent at the mill he worked at. Kirby discusses organizing a union local in Pacolet, the building of the union hall, his childhood, the impact of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0368
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/114
- 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):
- Lonnie Tracey and E. Lloyd Kirby, interviewed by Judith Helfand, 16 June 1994. L1995-13_AV0368, 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:
- 00:57:59
- 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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