- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh and Union Organizer Interview
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
Thornburgh, Lucille - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-12-28
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
Labor unions and communism
United Textile Workers of America
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, 32.50996, -84.87704
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Joe Jacobs was a lawyer who worked extensively with labor unions throughout his career. In addition, Jacobs was an organizer during the 1934 strike as well as serving as the Southern Regional Director for the United Textile Workers of America. Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn.
Jacobs, Thornburgh, and unnamed union organizers discuss the barriers to union organizing in the 1930s and 1990s, the perception of unions, the textile workers' strike 1934, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0508
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/204
- 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):
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh and union organizers, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, 28 December 1991. L1995-13_AV0508, 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:
- 00:27:53
- 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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