- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Lucille Thornburgh Interview 1
- Creator:
- Thornburgh, Lucille
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-15
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Loray Mill Strike (1929)
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
Blacklisting, Labor
United States. National Recovery Administration - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Loray Mill
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, Cherokee Spinning Company - Medium:
- oral histories (literary genre)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn.
Thornburgh discusses the National Recovery Act (NRA), her organizing work at Cherokee Mills, the impact of the Wagner Act, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 1929 strike at Loray Mills in Gastonia, N.C., and blacklisting. The last 10 minutes of the video consist of shots of various mills around Knoxville. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0458
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/148
- 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:
- Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript.||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):
- Cite as: Lucille Thornburgh, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, 15 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0458, Series III: Archival Footage, The Uprising of '34 Collection (1995-13), Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 12:29:36 AM
- Original Collection:
- Containers 33 and 83||Southern Labor Archives||https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472||Series III: Archival Footage||The Uprising of '34 Collection (L1995-13)
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
