- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Melton Ballard, James Ballard, and Robert Scarboro Interviews
- Creator:
- Ballard, Melton
Ballard, James
Scarboro, Robert - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-10
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Blacklisting, Labor
United Textile Workers of America
United States. National Recovery Administration - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, 34.01434, -86.00639
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, Dwight Manufacturing Company - 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 Gadsden, Ala. James Ballard is Melton Ballard's son. Robert Scarboro collects old photos in Gadsden, Ala.
Jame Ballard and Melton Ballard discuss organizing the union local, the textile worker's strike of 1934 and blacklisting after the strike. Scarboro discusses the story behind Dwight Mills coming to Gadsden Ala., and the photographs he has in his collection. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0426
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/132
- 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, James Ballard, and Robert Scarboro, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, 10 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0426, 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:
- 00:30:27
- 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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