- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Laura Beard Interview
- Creator:
- Beard, Laura
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-04
- Subject:
- Textile workers--Labor unions
Women textile workers--Social conditions - 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:
- Laura Beard was a spooler and union organizer in Gadsden, Ala.
Beard discusses her participation in the union and the activities and people who contributed to union efforts. She describes family life as a female mill worker, working conditions for women in mills, and the racial diversity of mill workers and union members. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0423
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/134
- 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):
- Laura Beard, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 4 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0423, 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:
- 00:30:19
- 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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