- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Melton Ballard and James Ballard Interview
- Creator:
- Ballard, Melton
Ballard, James - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-10
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Labor unions - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, 34.01434, -86.00639 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Melton Ballard was the son of a pro-union textile worker who was on the picket lines in Gadsen, Ala. James Ballard is Melton Ballard's son.
Melton Ballard discusses the impact of the textile workers' strike on his father, and on his family. James Ballard discusses working conditions in the textile mills with his father, and the circumstances surrounding his grandfather's dismissal. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0413
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/120
- 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):
- Melton Ballard and James Ballard, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 10 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0413, 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:
- 00:30:31
- 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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