- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Rosa Mae King Murphy, Rev. Richard Lisk, Rev. Frank Miller, and Frank Miller Jr.
- Creator:
- Murphy, Rosa Mae King
Lisk, Richard
Miller, Frank
Miller, Frank Jr. - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers
Labor unions
Working class
Working class--Dwellings
Labor unions and communism
Labor unions--Officials and employees
Labor unions--Organizing - 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, Acme Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Rosa Mae King Murphy was a spinner at ACME Mill in Belmont, N.C. Rev. Richard Lisk is the son of Red Lisk and the nephew of Rev. Frank Miller. He is also a chaplain in the armed forces. Rev. Frank Miller was a weaver and a loom fixer at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. He was in Local 1902. He left the mill and became a Baptist preacher in later life. Frank Miller Jr. is the son of Rev Frank Miller and Rev. Richard Lisk's cousin.
Lisk and Murphy discuss the organizing the union, life in the mills, and the impact of the strike. Lisk and Rev. Frank Miller discuss Red Lisk, Lisk's childhood, union orgainzing, preaching, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0356
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/121
- 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):
- Rosa Mae King Murphy, Rev. Richard Lisk, Rev. Frank Miller, and Frank Miller Jr., interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0356, 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:
- 02:00:39
- 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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