- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- LeGette Blythe, Rev. Richard Lisk, and Yates Heafner Interviews
- Creator:
- Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993
Lisk, Richard
Heafner, Yates - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions
New Deal (1933-1939)
United States. National Recovery Administration
United Textile Workers of America - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, 35.40888, -80.58158
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- LeGette Blythe was an author and journalist from Huntersville, N.C. He worked at the Charlotte Observer at the time of the 1934 General Textile Strike. Rev. Richard Lisk is the son of Red Lisk and a chaplain in the armed forces. Yates Heafner was a mediator for the Textile Labor Realtions Board.
Blythe discusses his coverage of the textile workers' strike of 1934 for a local Charlotte, N.C. newspaper. Lisk and Heafner discuss Yates's memories of Red Lisk ( Richard Lisk's father) and relationships between unions, workers and owners of textile mills. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0359
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/162
- 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):
- LeGette Blythe, Richard Lisk, and Yates Heafner, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0359, 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:
- 01:58:24
- 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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